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Heart Butte: A Blackfeet man’s DNA is the oldest ever found on the continent, according to a testing company. Darrell “Dusty” Crawford’s results trace his ancestry back 17,000 years in the Americas. Crawford had his DNA tested through CRI Genetics, which traced his line back 55 generations with a 99% accuracy rate – rare, as the ancestry often is clouded that far back, according to the company. It was so unlikely, CRI told him, as to be like finding Bigfoot. Crawford’s DNA story suggests his ancestors likely came not across the Bering Land Bridge but from the Pacific, traveling to the coast of South America and then heading north.