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Inuit
Thousands of years ago, during the last ice age, mile-thick glaciers
covered a vast portion of North America, and the Asian continent was
joined to North America by a land bridge. The Arctic areas of Alaska,
Beringia, and Siberia were free of ice. Vast herds of caribou,
muskoxen, and bison migrated to these plains. Following them were the
nomadic Asian ancestors of today's Inuit and Indians. The doorway to
Asia closed about three or four thousand years later as the glaciers
receded and melted. These people: the Inuit (meaning the people),
adapted to their harsh tundra environment and
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