Origin
Lacking an early written language, Caribou Inuit pre-history is unclear. There are three main theories:
- Caribou Inuit are the descendents of an interior Eskimo culture that spread in Arctic North America and Greenland. (Birket-Smith, 1930; Rasmussen, 1930; Czonka, 1995)
- Caribou Inuit are the descendents of Thule people who had migrated from Alaska. (Mathiassen, 1927)
- Caribou Inuit were the 17th century descendents of a migratory subgroup of Copper Inuit from the arctic coast. (Taylor, 1972; Burch, 1978) While this is the most current hypothesis, it is still unproven. (Czonka, 1998)
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