From FAAM No. 0, Spring 2013: 52–53. Before Common Era 2500–1000 BCE: Independence I people from Canada settle in north Greenland 2500–800 BCE: Saqqaq people from Siberia settle in southeast and west Greenland 700–80 BCE: Independence II people (Early Dorset) settle in the north and northeast, near Independence Fjord 500 BCE–1500 CE: Tuniit or Dorset culture people from Canada settle in the northwest Early Common Era 982: Eric the Red, a Norseman banished from Iceland for murder, arrives in Greenland 986: Eric founds Norse colonies in southern Greenland 1200: Thule Inuit from Canada settle throughout Greenland 1261: Norse Parliament in…
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