Question, though - why would diabetes be a result of this? A sudden and forced change of diet, maybe?
Notice that the man said the dogs could smell caribou miles away ~ people dan't. The dogs could also bring down the caribou and small game to be "shared" (dogs being social they share, particularly with the alpha in the group, in this case the Inuit man driving the team).
When you're system is all geared up to eat your requisit diet of 40% protein per day, 57% fat, and 3% stomach contents (if you're lucky), adopting the agricultural substitute of 90% starch and 10% sugar just doesn't cut it. You'll burn out in no time, and that's called diabetes!
Probably.
They'd always eaten a fish/seal/bear diet.
An all meat and fat diet and they probably had an impaired ability to digest carbohydrates.
Here's your answer right here. The ultimate goal is that we are all one color, one culture, one ideal and pay homage to the great One World Vision. We are not allowed to have our own culture, unless we are recently immigrated into Little Sudan or Little Cuba.
I have witnessed this in the Southern US where I have lived all my life. Daily our culture, our history and even our accent are being purged. Back in 2000 when the Confederate Flag was succesfully removed from the SC capitol dome, I said repeatedly that if you think this if about that flag, you're in for a rude awakening soon. It's about assimilation and control.