So I’m in the middle of reading a pretty good book called “Minds of Winter” by Ed O’Loughlin. It’s a Giller Prize nominee and is about the wrecks of the expeditionary ships HMS Erebus and Terror, lost while searching for the Northwest Passage and two modern characters and their link to it. It covers a lot of history: https://houseofanansi.com/products/minds-of-winter
But what really got me thinking was a section where it gets into these northern peoples called the Tuniit or Tuniq. Described as as tall people who were taller and stronger than the Inuit, but easily scared off and extremely shy. And as giants, taller and stronger than the Inuit but afraid to interact and “easily put to flight.
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Tuniit
Researches and scientists call them Dorset culture (500 BCE–1500 CE) that preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_culture
Read those links first and then let’s put this together. What could of been considering the first human-types in North America. They are big, hairy and shy. They don’t mind moving between different climates and can travel pretty well. And they are nomads.
Sound like anyone we know?