Chapter Ninty One.
Still, albeit the Skraelings was more of a word for the Inuits, it was often used for all natives of Helegsland, though Helegians was also used, if rarely.
So, whatever happened to the Skraelings (i.e. all people living north from the Far West Muslim/Toltec cultural zone - ofcourse, I only mean those who differ sufficiently from OTL to get a mention)?
Firstly, the Inuits. Weakened by diseases and raids, they are much diminished in number and strenght, and their prospects look bleak, generally-speaking. Ofcourse, the more western communities are much better off... but it were the eastern ones that were the best and the strongest of them all, until now. Not that there ever was a chance of an Inuit Empire, come to think of it...
The Cree. After the Mingan War, these became Vinland's most nearby neighbours, but as they - or rather, those of them who lived in the Cree Plains (OTL northern Great Plains) - grew more militant, bolstered by the new horses as they were, incidents begun to appear... though, ofcourse, the Cree are not yet a significant power.
Other tribes, further south, had no direct contact with the Vikings yet, but the diseases and the horses and the other trade goods and new ideas and technologies did gradually spread. Ofcourse, they did not spread far yet - at least, the technologies, the diseases already crippled many a tribe and yet created fresh opportunities for others. So south we go, to meet the squabbling Vinnish tribes in Rjolfland or Powhatania (OTL central US East Coast), albeit similar battles went on in other nearby lands as well. The tribes have only begun to recover from the European diseases, and are yet to tame horses, but these diseases clearly created a lot of vacuum and also inspired a need for unity. So tribes united into tiny confederations. And they... squabbled. Which is to say they fought very sporadically amongst each other.
Further south we go, in the Mississippi the diseases already came; horses and iron came rather slower, but eventually did - from the south, ofcourse, for the Muzzatid Sultanate, a great trade empire, too was involved in spreading all the things that came with the Old World contacting the New World. The nascent civilization there was dealt quite a setback by those diseases, but ultimately survived and albeit here, too, there was much squabbling, they mostly begun to form around six groups - Spiro, Plaquemine, Towosahgy, Aztalan, Ohio and Etowah. These groups are more like tribal confederations, each united by common culture.
Finally, in the southwest (OTL US Southwest) we have several tribes/cultures, the dominant of which is the Anasazi. Diseases and technologies came here too, from the Toltecs this time.
The arrival of diseases, and later of horses and iron transformed the "Skraeling" society completely. But changes were far from over yet. Far from it...