A Sadlermiut man paddling on an inflated walrus skin, 1830[1]
Regions with significant populations
Canada
Languages
Undetermined
Religion
Possibly shamanism
Related ethnic groups
Dorset culture, other Inuit, Aleuts, Yupiks
The Sadlermiut (also called Sagdlirmiut,[2][3] or Sallirmiut in modern Inuktitut spelling, from Sadlerk[4] now Salliq, the Inuktitut name for the settlement of Coral Harbour, Nunavut) were an Inuit group living in near isolation mainly on and around Coats Island, Walrus Island, and Southampton Island in Hudson Bay.[5] They survived into the early 20th century and were thought by some to have been the last remnants of the Dorset culture[4] as they had preserved a culture and dialect distinct from the mainland Inuit. Despite their culture and local traditions seeming to show combined elements of both the Dorset and Thule societies,[6] genetic studies show no Dorset admixture and prove a sole Inuit ancestry leading many to conclude the cultural difference may be entirely due to their isolation from the mainland Inuit.[7] Research published in 2015 found that the Sadlermiut were genetically Thule who had somehow acquired Dorset cultural features, such as stone technology. It remains a mystery how they acquired Dorset technology in the absence of obvious genetic admixture such as through intermarrying.[8]
Map of territory historically inhabited by the Sadlermiut and major archeological sites associated with Sadlermiut habitation
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^Aleš Hrdlička (1910). Contribution to the Anthropology of Central and Smith Sound Eskimo. The Trustees. p. 181.
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^Briggs, Jean L.; J. Garth Taylor. "The Canadian Encyclopedia: Sadlermiut Inuit". Historica Foundation of Canada. Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
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^"No Descendants Are Left From the First Eskimos". Live Science. 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
^Raghavan, Maanasa; DeGiorgio, Michael; Albrechtsen, Anders; et al. (29 August 2014). "The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic". Science. 345 (6200). doi:10.1126/science.1255832. PMID 25170159. S2CID 353853.
The Sadlermiut (also called Sagdlirmiut, or Sallirmiut in modern Inuktitut spelling, from Sadlerk now Salliq, the Inuktitut name for the settlement of...
deaths of the last members of the Sadlermiut. A 2002 paper suggested that the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Sadlermiut people was related to that of both...
hemisphere fully south of the Arctic Circle. It was the last home of the Sadlermiut people who are widely believed to represent the Dorset culture. Coats...
the mainland. The Sadlermiut ("inhabitants of Salliq") whose name is derived from Salliq previously occupied the area. The Sadlermiut are thought to be...
speaking, Southampton Island is famous for its now-extinct inhabitants, the Sadlermiut (modern Inuktitut Sallirmiut "Inhabitants of Salliq"), who were the last...
for being the location of an abandoned Sadlermiut settlement, currently an archaeological site. The Sadlermiut settlement, situated on the west side of...
evidence shows that descendants of the Dorset culture, known as the Sadlermiut, survived in Aivilik, Southampton and Coats Islands, until the beginning...
Point, on Southampton Island, the Sadlermiut were likely the last remnants of the Dorset culture, or Tuniit. The Sadlermiut population survived up until winter...
Alaska and Chukotka. Until 1902, a possible enclave of the Dorset, the Sadlermiut (in modern Inuktitut spelling Sallirmiut), existed on Southampton Island...
considered explicitly political as well as religious. Wirth identified the Sadlermiut eskimos, recently having gone extinct, as remnants of a long-past Thulean...
142,907 24 107 Coats Island 5,498 2,123 Nunavut 0 The last home of the Sadlermiut people. 25 111 Amund Ringnes Island 5,255 2,029 Nunavut 0 26 116 Mackenzie...
Labrador and in the Ungava region (until about 1300 CE); the isolated Sadlermiut survived until the early 20th century on the southern coasts of Southampton...
Description given by Kunit to Holm Sølver Elkins Notes 1 Sadlermiut, on the west side of which is the site of an old settlement 66°13′N 35°32′W / 66...
over the course of around 200 years. The last remnant of Tuniit were Sadlermiut who disappeared in the early 1900s. Displacement of the Tuniit (Inuktitut...
Bell, Hudson's Bay Company governor and explorer. The Dorset culture Sadlermiut lived on the Bell Peninsula and elsewhere on Southampton Island until...
(in Louisiana) by 3400 BP. Several Inuit groups, such as the Netsilik, Sadlermiut, Utkuhiksalingmiut, and Caribou Inuit (Qaernerimiut) created utilitarian...
in American Anthropologist (1923) about Southampton Island's isolated Sadlermiut who became extinct in 1902. Subsequent to their extinction, Comer attempted...
semipalmated sandpiper, and white-rumped sandpiper. The area was populated by Sadlermiut until the early 20th century when they were wiped out by an epidemic....
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