Northern coastal native americans develope viking like raidng culture

I had an idle thought recently, what if the northern costal native ameircans (inuit, Tlingit ect) developed a raiding/taiding/exploring viking like culture. Whould this result in improved naval tech? Would these people expand to the east (Iceland) if eastern, or to the west (sibereia, japan, hawiai) if western? What would be the optimum time for this to occure. Would they meet the vikings coming the other way? Share your thoughts!

Vikings more successful in Vinland and North America. Which influences some natives to become viking-like, raiding other native tribes.
 
The Malays and Bugis around the Straits of Malacca (and other places) had a sea based "pirate" raiding culture in C17 and C18 (maybe earlier). They got as far as Japan at any rate, could maybe have made the jump across the Bering Sea, they were pretty good navigators.

Though, why would they ? Nothing much on west coast North America worth stealing back then.
 
And what effect do you think them forming a n empire would have? (seeing as its for your timeline, you dont have to ansere, ime just curios)

They pull a mini-menji over time. They won't become a world power or anything like that, and actually get put under the thumb of a colonial empire. But getting into a complex sequence of events that spans over a century worth of alternate history, leading to the boiled down simplistic summery I gave above, would just take too long to explain, and probably far too confusing. Also, since this is all just in the planning stages still, I might completely change my mind.
 
Yes, it would be interesting so see what a powerfull, seafaring, slavetaking culture would have on the Mesoamericans, prehaps making them less trusfull of those plale, steelclad men from the east who came in giant canoes. (I know this is off topic, and not northern, but prehhaps the caribs or the Arawak people could fill the role of sea based raiders of the mesoamericans?)
Mesoamericans were militarily superior to both them and the Caribbean peoples even moreso. I've heard the idea that the Caribs or Arawaks could be a Viking-analogue in the Americas but it doesn't bear well under scrutiny. Most Mesoamerican nations were highly organized with well-trained and effective fighters and especially more populous than these hypothetical raiders. The Vikings of OTL were successful because they were just as advanced as their targets in technology, often more skilled in war, could bring great numbers to bear, and did a good job of picking targets. The Arawaks or Caribs could fulfill none of these conditions, and the Mesoamericans faced much greater opponents in each other than they possibly could from any outsiders in North America.
 
Mesoamericans were militarily superior to both them and the Caribbean peoples even moreso. I've heard the idea that the Caribs or Arawaks could be a Viking-analogue in the Americas but it doesn't bear well under scrutiny. Most Mesoamerican nations were highly organized with well-trained and effective fighters and especially more populous than these hypothetical raiders. The Vikings of OTL were successful because they were just as advanced as their targets in technology, often more skilled in war, could bring great numbers to bear, and did a good job of picking targets. The Arawaks or Caribs could fulfill none of these conditions, and the Mesoamericans faced much greater opponents in each other than they possibly could from any outsiders in North America.

And not to mention that as soon as the last embers of the Migration age died down and kingdoms re-organised (and built lots of forts) the Vikings faded as a military power.

I mean, Ireland managed to get rid of the Vikings for most part, and the average Mesoamerican state is a dozen times what Ireland was -

- whereas neither the Haida nor the Tlingit nor the Caribs nor the Arawaks are much like the Vikings other than having a similar lifestyle. The technological differences are considerable.
 
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