The ancestors of the Inuit, known to archaeologists as the Thule, arrived in the Canadian Arctic around A.D. 1000. They came from Alaska and gradually moved east, replacing the first inhabitants of the Arctic, the Palaeo-Eskimos, who arrived in the region about 4000 years ago.

 

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Copper Inuit trousers

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Details of old map #1

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Details of old map #2