Dorset Proto-culture

Origins
There is archelogical evidence to show that Homo Americanis have been inhabiting the area now known as Newfoundland since approximately 40,000 years ago.

For most of history, they have been nomads, never settling in one place. This all changed in 14,000 BCE, when the event now known as the Beautiful Apocalypse occurred. Then, something changed, for better or for worse. If you wish to see a comprehensive list of protocultures known to us, then visit the list of protocultures.

14,000 BCE -Onward
==== Unlike their neighbours, the early Dorset didn't suffer from population shrinking or extinction. Their situation was still dire however. Eventually, they grouped up to form the protoculture that we know today. Still semi-nomadic however. ====

Characteristics
They are spread across all of Newfoundland but mostly stick to the coast. Their main source of sustenance are fish and mammoths. Over centuries they have bred the local mammoths to be smaller and fluffier and to have little to no horns.

Beliefs
Over decades of reconstruction by the best archeologists and modern communities we now know that the Dorset belived that in the beginning, there was one great entity. How this entity split is not mentioned but we do know that it split into two spirits: Akut, and Tuka. Akut is the spirit associated with mammoths food, and all that is good. Akut cares for the Americanis, gives them food,water and shelter. Meanwhile, Tuka is a zealous spirit who hate the Americanis and associated with the cold. The two spirits regularly fight,and it was said that such fighting would cause major natural disasters, which is why the Dorset always pray to Akut, and Curse Tuka.