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    The Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothuck) were a group of indigenous people who lived on the island of Newfoundland. The Beothuk culture...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    declined by forty to eighty percent and several First Nations, such as the Beothuk, disappeared. The decline is attributed to several causes, including the...
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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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