Nelson River Site
800 Years Ago
Around 800 years ago our Inuvialuit ancestors known as 'Early Inuit' or 'Thule Inuit' expanded into the Canadian Arctic and Greenland from Alaska, where they had developed skills and technology for harvesting large sea mammals including walrus and whales in the open seas. One of the earliest known Early Inuit archaeological sites in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region is the Nelson River Site on Banks Island. Archaeologists excavated the remains of an igluryuaq (driftwood and sod winter house) at the site.
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