As a result, specific statistical details from the paper’s methods — exact read depths, sample sizes for the comparison group, the specific probability thresholds used to conclude a match, and other technical parameters — are not included in this article. Where the article describes the method’s logic and approach, it draws on the general description of the study provided in accessible reporting and the Cambridge institutional announcement, not on the primary paper’s specific technical language.
Interview material attributed to Ernie LaPointe is drawn from documented published sources: the KOTATV interview from November 2021, the Business Insider account from 2021, the CBS News report from 2021, the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield 2007 interview, and the Smithsonian Magazine 2021 account. All LaPointe quotations are cited from those specific sources rather than paraphrased without attribution.
Information about the 2007 repatriation is drawn primarily from the Smithsonian TORCH blog post, the ICT News/AP 2007 article naming LaPointe’s sisters, and the Friends of the Little Bighorn burial history account. The Smithsonian’s repatriation research timeline and Bill Billeck’s role are documented in the TORCH blog and Smithsonian Magazine accounts.
Biographical information about Sitting Bull comes from Britannica, the American Battlefield Trust, New World Encyclopedia, and the Friends of the Little Bighorn biographical accounts — sources that have been cross-checked against one another where possible. Specific claims about Sitting Bull’s birth location, the nature of his ceremonial role, and the circumstances of his death are attributed to specific sources or noted as accounts that vary across sources.