I don't see it as a moral failing for anyone not to take personal responsibility due to the Clovis people being wiped out by a genetically different people 9,000 years ago,
Just a brief, unrelated to the thread aside(well, I guess not so brief, lol)as I am confused by this statement. It’s true that Clovis technology only persisted for 500 years, producing the distinctive fluted projectile points we call Clovis points. The most popular theory describing why Clovis technology and culture ceased is the Clovis comet impact hypothesis:
en.wikipedia.org
But that does not mean the people themselves disappeared, or that they were replaced by a genetically different people. That they were not replaced was demonstrated by the DNA study of the Anzick Clovis child burial in Montana:
The new analysis of "Clovis boy" DNA also stirs an ethics debate about the handling of tribal remains
www.scientificamerican.com
A review of the ancient human genomic record sheds light on the peopling processes of the Americas.
www.nature.com
“Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim—which is based on anatomical evidence—that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas.” (Note: the fossil human footprints described below may seriously challenge this conclusion, but at present we have no remains of these very early, >26,000 year old arrivals)
Leave aside for a moment the now established fact that the Clovis people were not the first Americans. Clovis technology was developed in North America, but the people were not the first here. See my last link below.
Then it occurred to me your figure of 9000 years might refer to the ~9000 year old remains of Kennewick Man. Originally, the fact that Kennewick Man’s physical characteristics did not much resemble modern Native Americans, in fact some said he must be related to the Ainu of Japan, led many to conclude he could not be related to Native Americans. But DNA analysis of the remains demonstrated that his closest living relatives were in fact the tribes living closest to where his remains were found:
Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old male human skeleton discovered in Washington state, USA, has been the subject of scientific and legal controversy; here a DNA analysis shows that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other extant population worldwide.
www.nature.com
Five tribes claiming Kennewick Man as a relative will work to rebury him after the Army Corps of Engineers said it’s validated the skeleton is Native American.
www.seattletimes.com
The still enduring mystery is who were the people here before Clovis people? For years, American archaeology insisted on the Clovis First hypothesis, that Clovis people were the first arrivals, and arrived by an overland route, down an ice free corridor from Beringia(the now sunken land connecting Siberia to Alaska). But, increasingly, sites were found, in both North and South America that predated Clovis. As old as 30,000 years, in the case of a Mexican cave, and it’s archaeological remains, discovered just last year. (It took decades for the pre-Clovis site of Monte Verde, Chile, to be generally accepted, the first generally accepted pre-Clovis dated site in the Americas).
Still, there has always been Clovis First holdouts. But, a discovery announced within the last two weeks changes everything. Proof that man arrived prior to the so-called Last Glacial Maximum(LGM) or greater than 26,000 years ago, when the LGM commenced:
The footprints, the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas, show that people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age.
www.nbcnews.com
The footprints date 21,000-23,000 years, but to be in New Mexico by that time means they must have arrived before the LGM began 26,000 years ago. And most likely arrived by boat, not overland.
So, the genetic evidence does not suggest the Clovis people were wiped out by a genetically different people 9000 years ago. For one thing, Clovis ended long before 9000 years ago. For another, Anzick child demonstrates the Clovis era child is ancestral to present day Native Americans. In addition, Kennewick Man does not represent a replacement population, either. Kennewick Man was ancestral to Native Americans. What Kennewick does demonstrate is that some degree of actual physical evolution did take place in the Americas….
Sorry for the lengthy aside. Just did not understand why you would believe Clovis people were wiped out by a genetically different population. Whoever the very first Americans actually were, where they came from, and how they arrived is still an open question, but the one Clovis burial we have demonstrates a genetic link to Native Americans.