Well, although it's so small that it wasn't included with their DNA Origins or Ethnicity estimates, our Haitian parent did possess trace amounts of Indigenous Americas ancestry. At only 0.26%, it could be an error or perhaps some remnant of very distant indigenous origins. It was likely Taino or indigenous Caribbean, but the algorithm used by Ancestry labelled it as Bolivia & Peru. For what it's worth, a few of the DNA matches from the same part of Haiti also had trace Indigenous Americas ancestry, but closer to 1% or sometimes slightly higher. So, overall, the Haitian is overwhelmingly of African origin but sometimes with significant French or European ancestry. None of this is surprising, although I do wonder why some geneticists reported our part of Haiti as having an oral tradition of native ancestry.
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