Inuit Discovered Us First!

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on September 9, 2016 - 9:47pm

News from the Celtic League:

Here’s a story that tries to prove that as Europeans were setting out for North America and ‘discovering’ the ‘New World’ at least some of its inhabitants had ‘discovered’ us first.

These voyages have just completed a crossing to prove that indigenous Inuit people from North America could have made the transatlantic passage the other way and probably did (link):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-372952…

BERNARD MOFFATT
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07/09/16

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Adventurers recreate Inuit kayak crossings to Scotland - BBC News

Two adventurers have kayaked from Greenland to Scotland to show that the journey was possible for Inuit in the 17th and 18th centuries.

 

 

 

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