The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee is believed to have been founded by the Peacemaker in 1142 or 1451 C.E., bringing together five distinct nations in the southern Great Lakes area into “The Great League of Peace”.
The Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples form the Iroquois Confederation Read more
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting Inuit Nunangat, the regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska
Inuit culture emerges in the Arctic Read more
The Thule Tradition lasted from about 200 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E. around the Bering Strait. The Thule people being the prehistoric ancestors of the Inuit who now live in Northern Labrador.
Thule culture emerges in the Arctic Read more
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from 500 B.C.E. to between 1000 and 1500 C.E., that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Inuit in the Arctic of North America.
Dorset culture emerges in modern-day Canada and Alaska Read more
The first traces of people living in the Fraser Valley date from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Sto:lo called this area, their traditional territory, S’ólh Téméxw were highly mobile hunter-gatherers.
Sto:lo culture emerges in modern-day British Columbia Read more
Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada from which a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone has been radiocarbon dated to 24,000 years before present, earlier than the generally accepted age for habitation of the New World.
Humans occupy and settle the Bluefish Caves in northern Yukon Read more
