LYCOS RETRIEVER 
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With respect to the Inuit Sled Dog, "pet potential" is an oxymoron. Pet qualities were never a consideration in the breeding of these dogs for their ability to work. The breed's more "primitive" behavior, its oral-ness, its highly developed sense of pack hierarchy, its overwhelming desire to work, are all qualities clearly suited to a working environment.
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Inuit were the first inhabitants of the Americas to encounter Europeans. Archaeological evidence suggests that groups of Inuit moved eastward from Alaska, inhabiting the entire Arctic coast of North America and portions of Greenland about a century before the explorations of the Greenland coast by the Viking Gunnbjörn Ulfsson around A.D. 875. Eric the Red established settlements in southern Greenland in 982 or 983. Contact between the Norse colonies in Greenland and the Inuit was uneasy and major conflict seems to have ended the Viking colonization of Greenland in the fifteenth century. Danish colonization began with the arrival in 1721 of missionaries, who pressured the Inuit to adopt European customs and language.
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The Inuit people didn't have a lot of animals to choose from so when they caught something they used all of the animal. They ate land and sea animals. They ate seals and walruses for their meat, the blubber was usually whipped and eaten like ice cream. Narwhales, fish, seals walruses and polar bears were the only sea animals the Inuit ate. Buffalo, caribou, elk and musk ox were very good meat suppliers for the Inuit. Very small animals were ... part of the Inuit diet, like arctic hares, birds and their eggs.
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Nearly all Inuit cultures have oral traditions of raids by other indigenous peoples, including fellow Inuit, such as the Bloody Falls Massacre, and of taking vengeance on them in return. Typically Western observers regarded these tales as generally not entirely accurate historical accounts, but more as self-serving myths. But evidence shows that Inuit cultures had very accurate methods of teaching historical accounts to each new generation.[18]
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Among the last Native groups to come into North America, the Inuit crossed the Bering land bridge sometime between 6000 B.C. and 2000 B.C., according to various sources. Anthropologists have discerned several different cultural epochs that began around the Bering Sea. The Denbigh, ... known as the Small Tool culture, began some 5000 years ago, and over the course of the next millennia it spread westward though Arctic Alaska and Canada. Oriented to the sea and to living with snow, the Denbigh most likely originated the snow house. Characterized by the use of flint blades, skin-covered boats, and bows and arrows, the Denbigh was transformed further east into the Dorset Tradition by about 1000 B.C.
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The life of the Inuit changed again with the arrival of whalers, fur traders and missionaries. Soon the Inuit did not only hunt for their living but ... to barter for rifles, sugar, tobacco and alcohol. Thus, they fell into a dependency on trade. Because, with rifles, ever more animals were killed, the natural balance of the Arctic began to stagger. The Inuit had to roam ever-increasing distances to hunt their prey. Also, Christianity forced its monotheistic philosophy upon the Inuit, along with foreign laws and morals.
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