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The Beothuk ( or ; also spelled Beothuck) were an indigenous people based on the island of Newfoundland.
Beginning around AD 1500, the Beothuk culture formed. This appeared to be the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from Labrador to present-day Newfoundland around AD 1. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.
In 2007 DNA testing was conducted on material from the teeth of Demasduit and her husband Nonosabasut, two Beothuk individuals who had died in the 1820s. The results suggest the Beothuk were linked to the same ancestral people as the Mi'kmaq, either through mixing of the populations or through a common ancestor. It also demonstrated they were solely of First Nation indigenous ancestry, unlike some earlier studies that suggested European admixture.
Usage examples of "beothuk".
Augustine-Alexandre, 148-49 Belcher, Sir Edward, 163-64 Buchan, Lieutenant David, 128-29, 132-34, Beothuk Indians, Nfld.
The Last of the Red Indians The story of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland is indescribably tragic and on several levels.
Even after the law was changed and it became, on paper at least, a capital crime to kill a Beothuk, the slaughter still went on.
His claim to fame was that he had in 1803 captured a Beothuk woman and brought her to Government House where she had caused a sensation.
A dozen miles into snow-covered forest, they found what they were seeking: a camp of Beothuk wigwams.
The white men did not realize it then, but in that year, 1819, there were only thirty-one Beothuk Indians left alive in Newfoundland.
I have not heard of any family or person in Newfoundland in whose veins flows Beothuk blood.
It was commonly believed that the last Beothuk on earth had left it in the 1820s.
The Beothuk had never grasped the European concept of private property, so they were deemed to be a nation of thieves.
They were in an unaffiliated language that showed many similarities with what had been pieced together of the Beothuk Language Isolate.
But whether it can ever be satisfactorily demonstrated that the Norse explorers came in contact with Algonquin, Micmac, or Beothuk Indians, and just where they landed, are not matters of essential importance.
I wish to direct attention to the possibility that in the Beothuk we may perhaps have one of the transition links between the Indians and the Eskimo.
In 1501 the Portuguese began to depopulate Labrador, transporting the now extinct Beothuk Indians to Europe and Cape Verde as slaves.
Northeasterly, the Beothuks have their home on a fair land, though cold, since the sinking of Atlantis diverted the warm sea currents from their shores.