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DNA And The Chumash Indians

John Johnson, a leading scholar of Chumash Indian culture and head of the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, joins Larry Mantle to talk about his DNA studies which seem to provide clues that link some of today's Chumash with settlers of coastal regions from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego more than 10,000 years ago.