Why did the Eskimos and Inuits settle in the northern reaches of north America?

Question

Why didn't they migrate to better and more livable climates like the rest of the Indian tribes. They couldn't have found a worse place to live. Where other tribes keeping them out of more Southern areas?

Answer 1

Eskimos and Inuits of ancient times were in pursuit of the Mammoth which was a huge hairy version of the Elephant they said one Mammoth could feed up to 20 villagers.
The Inuits hunted the Mammoth clear from Central Asia across the Bering Sea Land Bridge all the away across Northern America. Tha Mammoth had thick coats of Fur making them rather comfortable in the Arctic regions of Northern America and their coats also became popular with the Eskimos and Inuits to keep them warm in the harsh climate. As the Mammoth died out from being over hunted some of the Peoples moved to the warmer regions south of the original settlements leading the the discovery of the Buffalo and organized Horticulture in those fertile regions. Now the ones who stayed past the Mammoth may have been a Socialogical issue some people feel with their original home and they never may have wanted to lose that identity furthermore after centuries of living there as harsh as it may seem was all they knew they were adapted to that lifestyle.

Answer 2

The Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule culture, a nomadic people who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 and spread eastwards across the Arctic, displacing the related Dorset culture (in Inuktitut, the Tuniit). Inuit legends speak of the Tuniit as "giants", people who were taller and stronger than the Inuit, but who were easily scared off and retreated from the advancing Inuit. Researchers believe that the Dorset culture lacked dogs, boats and other technologies that gave the expanding Inuit society a large advantage over them. By 1300, the Inuit had settled west Greenland, and finally moved into east Greenland over the following century.

The Tuniit survived in Aivilik—Southampton and Coats Islands—until the beginning of the 20th century. They were known as Sadlermiut (Sallirmiut in the modern spelling). Their population had been ravaged by diseases brought by contact with Europeans, and the last of them fell in a flu epidemic caught from a passing whaler in 1902. The area has since been resettled by Inuit. Genetic research suggests that there was little or no intermarriage between the Tuniit and the Inuit over the thousand years of contact in the Canadian Arctic.

The Inuit were a nomadic culture that circulated almost exclusively north of the timberline, the de facto southern border of Inuit society. To the south, Native American Indian cultures were well established, and the culture and technology of Inuit society that served them so well in the Arctic was ill-suited to the sub-Arctic, so they did not displace their southern neighbours. Their relations with southerners were generally hostile, but at other times cordial enough to support trade.

Answer 3

Think about where they came from, across the Bering land bridge in Siberia. This wasn't a difficult place for them - it was very familiar - home, in fact. Climate very similar. Why should they want to leave when they had everything they needed right there?

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Answer 4

the idea is, is that when they moved there, the climates were very different. very livable. And, over time, it got cooler and cooler, and they simply continued to adjust to the weather.

and no, i am not saying this is evolution, or over millions of years or anything.