Thule Expansion: The Whale-Hunters Who Conquered the Arctic
They didn’t “discover” the Arctic—they mastered it. Between roughly 900 and the 1200s CE, the Thule (ancestors of today’s Inuit) expanded from Alaska across Arctic Canada and into Greenland, driven by dogs, umiaks, and bowhead whaling—a survival system powerful enough to reshape the north.
This documentary explores how that expansion worked, what it meant for earlier Arctic peoples, and why Thule adaptability mattered when climates shifted and contact zones formed on Greenland’s coasts.
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AI-generated visuals and voiceover are used for storytelling. Core dates and events follow accepted historical sources; some imagery is dramatized.