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COLLISION OF CULTURES

c. 1000

Early encounters between Europeans and First Peoples often led to violence.

First Peoples arrived in what became Canada over 12,000 years ago. Their societies always included some form of military organization and they sometimes made war on one other.

North America’s indigenous population first encountered Europeans around the year 1000 when Viking explorers from Greenland visited the Eastern Arctic, Labrador coast, and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and established a small colony at L’Anse-aux-Meadows on the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula.

First Peoples both traded and fought with the newcomers, who left a record of these encounters in their oral traditions, known as sagas. Partly due to the First Peoples’ vigorous resistance and superior numbers, Viking attempts at settlement ended after only a few years.

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