Thule people
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The Thule or proto-Inuit were the precursors of all modern Inuit and Yupik peoples. They developed in coastal Alaska by 1000 CE and expanded eastward across northern Canada, reaching Greenland by the
Thule site near Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island
Inuk pointing out Thule site, June 1995
Whalebone used in the building of an ancient Thule home in Resolute, Nunavut
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Inuit are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec
Thule people
…The Thule ( TOO-lee, also THOOL) or proto-Inuit were the precursors of all modern Inuit and Yupik peoples. They developed in coastal Alaska by 1000 CE and expanded eastward across northern Canada, reaching Greenland by the 13th century…
A European ship coming into contact with Inuit in the ice of Hudson Bay in 1697
An anonymous 1578 illustration believed to show Kalicho (left), and Arnaq and Nutaaq (right)
Hudson's Bay Company Ships bartering with Inuit off the Upper Savage Islands, Hudson Strait, 1819
Igloolik Inuit women and child (known as Iglulingmiut or "people of Igloolik") in traditional parkas (1999)