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Xithras

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40. It wasn't the Inuit.

Tue Mar 5, 2013, 03:34 AM

Mar 2013

I had to look it up, but the people on Newfoundland at that time were the ancestors of the Beothuk, who were believed to be related to the Algonquins.

Technically the Inuit didn't exist on Canada's east coast when the Vikings landed. The people we now know as the Inuit still only existed west of the Hudson Bay. The tribes on the east coast were the Dorset (now extinct, wiped out by the Inuit), the Innu (which, despite the name, aren't related to the Inuit...and they still exist), and the Beothuk (now extinct, wiped out by later European settlers...they beat the Vikings, but they couldn't fight cholera).

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