Common DNA Matches Reveal a Kwatami-Sixes Connection to Our Tolowa Cousins (Part Two)
Common DNA Matches Reveal a Kwatami-Sixes Connection to Our Tolowa Cousins (Part Two) For anyone researching Indigenous genealogy along the Southern Oregon and Northern California coasts, the family trees are beautifully complex, deeply interconnected networks. Building on the discoveries from Part One, The Power of the Missing Image: Tracing the Kinship of Sixes Mary .—specifically by tracing a key DNA match who descends from Sixes Julia— a fascinating genetic puzzle has emerged that points directly toward a missing link between the Kwatami/Sixes River people and the Tolowa Dee-ni' community of Xaa-wan'-k'wvt (Smith River). K’ay-lish Tom (historically recorded as Captain Tom or Howonquet Tom ) Headman and Leader of the Smith River Tolowa He was a deeply revered patriarch and political leader of the Xaa-wan’-k’wvt (Howonquet) village, one of the most prominent ancestral towns of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation near the mouth of the Smith River in Del Norte County, Californ...
