AHC: Black Inuit

Either get freedmen to be persecuted by Northerners, Canadians, and look even further north for a land of equality...

...or have a band of Africans, Australian Aborigines, or Papua New Guineans settle the far north or far south and take up a lifestyle that allows them to survive without getting health complications from lack of sunlight.

In the former scenario, whether they adopt Inuit language and religion doesn't matter, but they must take up the lifestyle.

In the latter scenario, they don't have to be literally culturally Inuit.
 
In my TL I was thinking of having a lot of freed slaves being sent to colonize Rupert's Land after a very long string of consequences due to my POD which led to Britain wanting to desperately populate that area. Not exactly what you were looking for, but close. Not many would take up directly the indigenous culture, but would be forced to at least partially take up a similar lifestyle.
 
Hmm maybe a little shift in this story

From 1528 to 1536, four castaways from a Spanish expedition, including a "black" Moor, journeyed all the way from Florida to the Gulf of California

perhaps we could have this Man get separated from the others and end up in oregon or vancouver island or maybe just the California coast.

He then starts a family with native women(notice that women is pural) the resulting children(perferably dozens of them Ghengis style) become their own people and move more and more north away from the european colonials and their impact on native americans.
 
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