First Contact

 More today from the display and video of Nuvumiutaq, the Arctic Bay kayaker whose replica stands here in the Museum.

More artifacts of the Iroquois are found here.

By 1500, the Iroquois had formed a powerful confederacy of alliances amongst themselves.

First contact by Europeans was confirmed to have happened a thousand years ago, as Norse explorers made landfall in North America. This has been proven without a doubt at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, and there's sufficient evidence through a wide range of eastern Canada of Viking presence.

Skraeling Island in the Arctic is one of the places where evidence of the Vikings can be found. We'll pick up here tomorrow.