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    The Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothuck) were a group of Indigenous people of Canada who lived on the island of Newfoundland. The...
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    Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/), also called Beothukan, is an extinct language once spoken by the indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland. The Beothuk...
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  • Beothuk Lake, formerly Red Indian Lake, is located in the interior of central Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The lake...
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    Newfoundland (island) (category Articles containing Beothuk-language text)
    of mixed Mi'kmaq and Beothuk descent, meaning some Beothuk must have lived on beyond 1829. She described her father as Beothuk and mother as Mi'kmaq...
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    Shanawdithit (category Beothuk people)
    member of the Beothuk people, who inhabited Newfoundland, Canada. Remembered for her contributions to the historical understanding of Beothuk culture, including...
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    their definition of genocide in relation to the Beothuk. While some scholars believe that the Beothuk died out as an unintended consequence of European...
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    Demasduit (category Beothuk people)
    Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on Newfoundland. Demasduit was born around 1796, near the end...
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  • nearby Trinity Bay and to make contact with the Beothuk. Two failed attempts to make contact with the Beothuk overland (see article on Henry Crout and construction...
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    the Beothuk were the only indigenous group living permanently on the island. Unlike other groups in the Northeastern area of the Americas, the Beothuk never...
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    join Canada as the province of Newfoundland. Indigenous people like the Beothuk (known as the Skræling in Greenlandic Norse), and Innu were the first inhabitants...
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    conjectural. Algonquian is sometimes said to have included the extinct Beothuk language of Newfoundland, whose speakers were both in geographic proximity...
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    ISBN 978-0-16-080388-8. Marshall, Ingeborg (1998). A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-7735-1774-5. Collen...
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    part of Newfoundland. Including the Lloyds River, which discharges in Beothuk Lake, the Exploits river has a length of 246 km, making it the longest...
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    Wakashan Ditidaht Haisla Heiltsuk-Oowekyala Kwakʼwala Nuu-chah-nulth Siouan Stoney Sioux Assiniboine other Beothuk Haida Kutenai Tlingit Coast Tsimshian...
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  • most likely direct descendants of the Maritime Archaic culture were the Beothuk of Newfoundland. The latter, through susceptibility to Eurasian diseases...
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  • Nonosabasut (category Beothuk people)
    Nonosabasut (died March 1819) was a leader of the Beothuk people. Family head and partner of Demasduit, born on the island of Newfoundland (present-day...
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  • along with his father had captured the Beothuk woman Demasduit. Peyton related to Howley many stories of the Beothuk. This started a life long fascination...
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    Bay of Exploits, the Exploits River and Beothuk Lake at its head, were among the last known haunts of the Beothuk people who generally are thought to have...
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    via YouTube. Marshall, Ingeborg (1998). A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-7735-1774-X. "Julia Roberts...
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    Indigenous peoples whom the Norse encountered, whether Tuniit, Inuit, or Beothuk. After about 1350, the climate grew colder during the period known as the...
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    town by the 1780s. Beothuk traversed Fogo Island for many hundreds of years before Irish and English settlers arrived. The Beothuk pursued the seal and...
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    Indigenous Name Exploring group Location Description of first contact ~1000 Beothuk Leif Erikson Vikings L'Anse Aux Meadows, Vinland (present-day Canada) Viking...
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  • ended in the region 1000 years ago. Archaeologists debate whether the Beothuk people were descended from Maritime Archaic peoples, or if they arrived...
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  • The Victoria River flows eastward from the Long Range Mountains into Beothuk Lake, which discharges into the Exploits River. It is 137 km in length...
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  • Interested in studying and trying to preserve Native culture, he founded the Beothuk Institution in 1827. The son of a well-to-do Scottish family, Cormack was...
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    Mi'kmaq and Abenaki of the Maritime region of Canada and likely the extinct Beothuk of Newfoundland. The Ojibwa and other Anishinaabe speakers of the central...
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  • Bernard Assiniwi 1935 2000 novelist, essayist, journalist La Saga des Béothuks, Windigo et la naissance du monde Damien Atkins 1975 playwright Real Live...
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  • marched inland for 130 miles to establish contact with the dwindling native Beothuk population, one of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas in the region...
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    settlements, the Beothuk were forced inland, and the lack of their normal food source contributed to a decrease in the Beothuk population. Beothuk numbers began...
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    associated with the Beothuk, whose use of red ochre led them to be referred to as "Red Indians" by the first Europeans to Newfoundland. The Beothuk may have also...
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