Threads That Bind: The Story of the Pacific Northwest Woolly Dog

Name: Threads That Bind: The Story of the Pacific Northwest Woolly Dog
Genre: Culture

For thousands of years, Indigenous women in the Pacific Northwest kept the “woolly dog” whose hair was used in traditional weaving of ceremonial blankets and robes. Due to colonial repression, the dog wool-weaving tradition was prohibited, and the woolly dog went extinct. Recently, researchers at the Smithsonian sequenced the woolly dog’s genome to understand its ancestry and genetic makeup.

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Funded in part by The Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Katherine Ward, Alaska Airlines, Center for Human Evolution and Diversity at Penn State University