Staffe Island (Geographic Keyword)
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Echoes of the Tuniit: Exploring Dorset-Inuit Interaction in Northern Nunatsiavut (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
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This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Inuit migration from Alaska to the Eastern Arctic (i.e. Canada and Greenland) around the 13th century AD is considered one of the most dramatic human population movements in North America. Around this same time, an existing Indigenous Arctic population, known as the Dorset culture by archaeologists, disappeared entirely. A major debate regarding these processes concerns the dynamics of Dorset-Inuit...