<P> Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule culture , who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 CE . They had split from the related Aleut group about 4,000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants , possibly related to the Chukchi language group , still earlier . They spread eastwards across the Arctic . They displaced the related Dorset culture , the last major Paleo - Eskimo culture ( in Inuktitut , called the Tuniit ) . </P>
<P> Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule culture , who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 CE . They had split from the related Aleut group about 4,000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants , possibly related to the Chukchi language group , still earlier . They spread eastwards across the Arctic . They displaced the related Dorset culture , the last major Paleo - Eskimo culture ( in Inuktitut , called the Tuniit ) . </P>
when did the inuit arrived in north america
when did the inuit arrived in north america
1000 CE
1000 CE