Thule migration across the Arctic
Inuit ancestors crossed from Alaska to Greenland in two centuries
Around the 12th–13th centuries, hunters of the Thule culture moved east from Alaska and in a short time spread across the whole Canadian Arctic to Greenland. They had dog sleds, large skin boats called umiaks and harpoons for whaling. The Thule displaced the earlier Dorset people and became the direct ancestors of today's Inuit.
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