This project was created about April 2016 with the intention of servicing people whose ancestry linked to the indigenous tribes in south-western United States of America; "to learn which haplogroups and mutations are prevalent in descendants of Apache, Navajo, Pueblo, Pima, etc." to be found in the New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and Texas area.

The project banner was originally uploaded to PublicDomainPictures.net by Summer Woods.

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas – including tribal identities as they exist today, and their ancestors – would have inhabited the south-western USA region for many thousands of years before recorded history, and the arrival of the Europeans.