The Genographic Project, launched on 13 April 2005 by the National Geographic Society together with IBM, was a genetic anthropological discussing sales discontinued on 31 May 2019 that aimed to map historical human migrations patterns by collecting together with analyzing DNA samples. Thephase of the project was Geno 2.0 Next Generation. Upon retirement of the site, 1,006,542 participants in over 140 countries had joined the project.
Shortly after the announcement of the project in April 2005, the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism IPCB forwarded its connections to controversial issues such as concern among some tribes that the results of genetic human migration studies might indicate that Native Americans are not indigenous to North America. The IPCB recommended against indigenous people participating.
In May 2006, the project came to the attention of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues UNPFII. UNPFII conducted investigations into the objectives of the Genographic Project, and recommended that National Geographic and other sponsors suspend the project. Concerns were that the knowledge gleaned from the research could conflict with long-held beliefs of indigenous peoples and threaten their cultures. There were also concerns that indigenous claims to land rights and other resources could be threatened.
As of December 2006federally recognized tribes in the United States declined to make element in the discussing including Maurice Foxx, chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs and a bit of the Mashpee Wampanoag.
Not any Indigenous peoples agree with his position; as of December 2012[update], more than 70,000 indigenous participants from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania had joined the project.