A groundbreaking study led by Texas's Southern Methodist University (SMU) has confirmed what the people of Picuris Pueblo ...

For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to ...

The Picuris Pueblo tribal nation initiated a genetic study that confirms their connection to Chaco Canyon -- a potential ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping ...

The findings show close links between the genomes of 13 current members of Picuris and ancient DNA recovered from 16 Picuris ...

But in recent times, one small pueblo’s ancestral ties to this once-powerful cultural center have been called into question.

Whether proving a relationship will give Picuris the seat at the table it deserves, this scientific collaboration has ...

The elders of the Picuris Pueblo nation, a 300-person tribe in Northern New Mexico, have passed down their history for centuries. They trace ancestral connections to the famed complex of sandstone ...

DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

Pueblo Bonito is one of the largest "great houses" constructed by the Chacoan people at Chaco Canyon. National Park Service Members of the Picuris Pueblo tribe in New Mexico have always known they ...

The new research is the first DNA evidence that the federally recognized tribe, known as Picuris Pueblo, has ancestral ties ...