DNA shows Paleo-Eskimos were Arctic's first settlers

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The haplogroup C comes from the C1e mentioned in this article

About 1000 AD, Norse explorers encountered natives in northern Newfoundland, who may have been ancestors of the later Beothuk, or Dorset inhabitants of Labrador and Newfoundland. ... Unlike some other native groups, the Beothuk tried to avoid contact with Europeans; they moved inland as European settlements grew!

Around the year 1000 AD, a Viking chieftain named Leif Eriksson, son of the man who discovered Greenland, Erik the Red, reached the shores of North America, 500 years before Columbus. "Skræling" was the word used by the Norse Vikings for the Native American and Paleo-Eskimo peoples of what is now Canada, especially the natives of Terranova (Vinland in Old Norse), where Norse settlements have been found. It is also believed that the Vikings settled in the Baffin Island (Helluland) and Labrador (Markland). Norse Men Mixed with some of the Paleo Eskimos as the DNA of some Icelanders Carrie C1e Haplogroup seem to indicate that both peoples got mixed Icelanders recently identified as having the C1e DNA profile. known of which in Canada is the vanished Beothuk nation of Newfoundland. ... American woman carrying the C1e lineage to Iceland around the year 1000.” They finally abandoned North America because it wasn’t worth the long journey, as the natives had no silver, iron or anything that the Norse could be interested in. They were received with hostility and the natives were too many for such a small colony of Norse Vikings. Here is painting represents a native from Vinland, an ancestor of the Beothuk, and is covered in red ochre.

Another thing to know Haplogroup C and specifically the lineage C4 represents the most abundant haplogroup in our ancient sample set with a frequency of 30%. The highest frequency of this lineage is observed in the Evenks, but C4 is also prevalent in South-Western Siberian populations such as Tuvans, Buryats and Tofalars