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I did a little research...

The bitch was finding out what question to ask. The secret words are "haplogroup X."

From this article:

But the surprise was that about 3 percent of the Native Americans tested had mtDNA from a different haplogroup, called X. Some populations, such as the Ojibwa from the Great Lakes region, have a high concentration of X - 25 percent.


There's more in the article.

Another source places this genetic pattern not only in Northern Indians, but in the Navajo(!)

And of course, Wikipedia fills in a lot of the details.

Now THAT'S "walking!"

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