I will be kayaking out of BAthurst lodge this summer ans i want to
know the human history of the inlet. i know the history of the lodge.
I want to know what culture made the tentrings and campsites we will
be finding.

Hello duffer477 and thank you for your question.

The tent rings you mention are thought to have been made by the Thule
people (700 BC to 1800 AD) predecessors of the Inuit, and the
campsites that you mention might refer to the campsites of John
Franklin and his 22 companions who mapped the Coppermine river, the
party ran out of food and were forced to eat the leather parts of
their clothes. (1819-1822) See the websites below for more detailed
information.

"Bathurst Inlet (lat: 665020, long: 1080255) ? originally a Hudson Bay
Post, the traditional Inuktitut name for the community is Kinggauk
which means "like a nose"
http://www.frozentoes.com/teachers/activities/activity9.htm

"ROYAL NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE" 
"A detachment was established at Baker Lake, and from there the patrol
set out with a team of sled dogs for Bathurst Inlet to investigate the
alleged murder of two explorers by Inuit. For two years, the patrol
struggled against the cold and the gales of the barrens, snow
blindness, and attacks by wolves. During this period, food supplies
dwindled and a number of the dogs became ill. In 1916, an exhausted
Beyts was replaced by Inspector F.H. French, who finally reached
Bathurst Inlet in May, 1917."
http://www.rcmp-learning.org/history/history_mod2.htm

"Franklin expedition of 1819-1822 is remembered and in which John
Franklin, John Richardson and their party of 22 men mapped the
Coppermine River and the Arctic coast from the mouth of the Coppermine
to the Kent Peninsula, including Bathurst Inlet. Several nearby
campsites used by this expedition will be visited in the special
history weeks."
http://www.visityukon.com/summerTrips/Nunavut/Bathurst%20Inlet%20Lodge.html

John Franklin (1786 - 1847)
http://www.allthingsarctic.com/exploration/franklin.htm

"Bathurst Inlet Study Tour"
"Tent ring believed to have been built by the Thule, a culture
predating modern Inuit.  Thule rings are characterized by their large
boulders placed touching each other, and by floors either paved or
raised above the surrounding area."
http://www.carc.org/2003/Bathurst_Inlet_Study_Tour.htm

"The Thule Invasion
About 1 000 years ago, small groups of Thule people appear to have
expanded eastwards along the coast of the Beaufort Sea and Amundsen
Gulf in the western Canadian Arctic, the summering grounds of the
bowhead whales that migrated along the northern coast of Alaska each
spring. The remainder of Arctic Canada continued to be occupied by the
Dorset people (known to archaeologists as the Palaeo-Eskimos), the
descendants of the first people to arrive in Arctic Canada, about 4
000 years ago. The Dorset people lacked much of the technology
developed in Alaska during the previous millennium. They also seem to
have had a much poorer way of life and much smaller communities. At
some point, probably during the eleventh century A.D., this way of
life was disrupted by an invasion of Alaskan Thule people. The Dorset
Culture thus disappeared from most of Arctic Canada"
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/16/h16-4108-e.html#The%20Thule%20Invasion

"The Thule Tradition in Alaska (c.700 BC-AD 1800)."
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2596/dorset.html


"8000 BC 
Original migration of the ancestors of the Aleuts across the shrinking
Bering Land Bridge (pl. 4). On the Pacific coast of Alaska these
people adapted to maritime hunting.
Related groups crossed the land bridge and adapted to life on the
tundra. These people may have been ancestors of the Indians or
Eskimos.

3000-1000 BC 
The Pacific Coast people (1A) developed into Aleuts on the Aleutian
Islands, Aleuts or related peoples occupied the south coast of Alaska.
Interior people (1B) may have developed the Arctic Small Tool
Tradition. These Palaeo-Eskimos moved eastward from Alaska to occupy
Arctic Canada and Greenland.
An equally likely hypothesis is that the Palaeo-Eskimos crossed Bering
Strait from Siberia at this time, bringing with them the Arctic Small
Tool Tradition.

1000 BC - AD 1000 
Aleuts still occupied the Aleutian Islands, but the related
populations of South Alaska were displaced by Eskimo migration.
Alaskan Eskimos developed maritime hunting techniques. These
Neo-Eskimos spread to Siberia by 2 000 years ago, and to South Alaska,
Arctic Canada, and Greenland by 1 000 years ago. Previous occupants of
these areas were displaced or assimilated."
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/16/h16-4106-e.html


Thank you for your question, and if you need any clarification of my
answer do not hesitate to ask.

Very best regards

THX1138

Search strategy included:
"Bathurst Inlet" history
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q=+%22Bathurst+Inlet%22++history

The answer did not add much information to what I had aleady found.
But it put it all nicely on one page with references. Thanks