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8,000 years. And science is only now admitting what the Blackfeet have been saying all along. A new DNA study didn’t just adjust the timeline — it shattered it. Researchers discovered a direct genetic line connecting today’s Blackfeet people to ancestors who lived on the northern Plains nearly 18,000 years ago, deep in the Ice Age. And here’s the part everyone is talking about: Blackfeet oral traditions already said this. Science just refused to believe it. For generations, the Blackfeet have spoken about their connection to these rivers, mountains, and grasslands. Stories passed down like memory — not myth. Now biology is confirming what history books never did. This isn’t just a discovery. It’s a correction. A reminder that Indigenous knowledge is evidence — even when Western science is late to the truth. Some researchers say this changes everything we thought we knew about early North America. Others say the real question is why it took DNA to validate a story the Blackfeet already knew. Fun Fact Some Blackfeet oral histories describe Ice Age landscapes thousands of years before science mapped them. So let’s talk about it: Should science lead the conversation about the past — or finally learn to listen? #indigenoushistory #ancientdna #rewritingthepast #truthandtradition #fblifestyle Sources Science Advances Nature Communications Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian