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Genetic ancestry and indigenous heritage in a Native American descendant community in Bermuda.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Nov 2011
Gaieski Jill B, Owings Amanda C, Vilar Miguel G, Dulik Matthew C, Gaieski David F, Gittelman Rachel M, Lindo John, Gau Lydia, Schurr Theodore G
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Discovered in the early 16th century by European colonists, Bermuda is an isolated set of islands located in the mid-Atlantic. Shortly after its discovery, Bermuda became the first English colony to forcibly import its labor by trafficking in enslaved Africans, white ethnic minorities, and indigenous Americans. Oral traditions circulating today among contemporary tribes from the northeastern United States recount...
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