Entire Inuit and Alaskan Native village communities died in Alaska. Relatively dark skin remains among the Inuit and other Arctic populations. Alaska became populated by the Inuit and a variety of Native American groups. Reincarnation is an intrinsic part of some northern Native American and Inuit traditions. Several thousand Greenlandic Inuit reside in Denmark proper. Most of the Inuit population speaks Danish as a second language. There are also small number of Inuit people in Alberta. The Dorset adaptation was different from that of the whaling-based Thule Inuit. Contact with Europeans was another important impetus for change in the culture of the Inuit. More than 96% of the Inuit and Cree voted No in the referendum. Inuit dolls are made out of soapstone and bone, materials common to the Inuit people. Neanderthal dental wear patterns are most similar to those of modern Inuit. The stars of Auriga feature in Inuit constellations. The Yupik languages are linguistically distinct from the Inuit languages. Boas applied these principles to his studies of Inuit languages.