More digging is planned for a culturally significant site in Newfoundland and Labrador, says the province's top archaeologist, as the shoreline of Beothuk Lake creeps closer due to erosion.

"The Beothuk have been around for a long time. But this statue will place it on a map again, the history of the Beothuk people, and the impact they had on this area," Sceviour said. Download our free ...

A search along the banks of the Exploits River near Grand Falls-Windsor for remnants of Beothuk settlements dating back 200 years is proving more successful than expected. The area hasn't been ...

Throughout the years, the Beothuk people have been written about as an “extinct” nation, whose numbers were few at the time of European contact to Newfoundland. By 1828, they were all gone ...

For centuries, the Beothuk were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland. The woman beleived to be the last remaining Beothuk died in 1829. Not nearly as much is known about them ...

The legend of Shawnadithit, the last member of the Beothuk Indians, is well known to Newfoundlanders. All of it, that is, except the location of the young woman’s remains. She died of ...

Shanawdithit, a Beothuk woman who died of tuberculosis in 1829, was the last known Beothuk. The group had thrived in Newfoundland with as many as 2,000 people there, until the Europeans arrived in ...

Perhaps some Newfoundlanders are blasé about the extinction of the Beothuk, but Michael Crummey is not one of them. He grew up in Buchans, a small mining town in the centre of the province, near ...

EDMUNTON, CANADA—A new study of carved pendants made by the Beothuk people of Newfoundland offers insight into their thoughts on the afterlife. The Beothuk nation had lived in Newfoundland for ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Beothuk: How A Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear by Christopher Patrick Aylward McGill-Queen’s University Press 298 pages, $44.95 “That history is written by the ...