On this episode of Our American Stories, before settlers arrived, and before maps labeled native nations, indigenous communities had already shaped the land we now call America. Their history reaches back thousands of years, far beyond the record books. Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson, a Harvard-trained biologist and author of They Had Names: Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People, explores how genetics and archaeology are helping fill in the early chapters of indigenous history in North America. His work adds new insight into the deep roots of the Native American story and the origins of the people who shaped the continent long before colonization.

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