Beothuk
Britishnoun
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In March 1819, a group of British furriers trekked up the frozen Exploits River in Newfoundland to find native Beothuk people whom they suspected of having stolen fish and other supplies.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019
Within a generation, the Beothuk had been wiped out.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019
The last member of the Beothuk tribe, the aboriginal people who inhabited Fogo Island and the surrounding area, died in 1829.
From Newsweek
It appears to me not sufficiently proven that the now extinct race on America’s east coast, the Beothuk, were Indians.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
As a consequence of the persistent warfare which followed the advent of the latter and which was also waged against the Beothuk by the Europeans, especially the French, the Beothuk rapidly wasted in numbers.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
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