The last known members of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland were thought to have died out 200 years ago. But genes from these people have been found in a man living in Tennessee today ...

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 ...

Beothuk Energy is pleased to announce a partnership with one of the world's leading offshore wind investors, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners to develop, own and operate wind farms in Atlantic ...

Aboriginal groups want bones of the extinct Beothuk people to be removed from museum vaults and brought back to Newfoundland. A woman named Shanawdithit was the last known member of her people, with ...

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 ...

Glenn Alteen, program director at grunt, said the kidnapping and murder of Demasduit and Nonosabasut wasn’t an isolated incident.It was close to the final chapter for the Beothuk. During 300 ...

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 ...

The first takes place around 1000 AD, when Vikings arrive in Newfoundland as the Beothuk Anin is travelling by boat along the coast. This section describes Anin’s internal transformation from follower ...

Another archaic symbol of Canada's colonial past is under the microscope. The Newfoundland and Labrador government confirmed this week it plans to redesign the province's 400-year-old coat of arms ...

With the start of a new football season comes the renewal of the debate over the Redskins' controversial name. Writer Lakshmi Gandhi takes us through the convoluted history of the word "redskin." ...

Newfoundland-based developer Beothuk Energy has unveiled plans for a 1GW, C$4bn ($2.86bn) wind farm off the southern coast of Nova Scotia that would export power to New England in the US via a 200 ...

There's a call for a more fitting memorial in St. John's to Shanawdithit, the last-known Beothuk, as well as a day to mark Indigenous history in Newfoundland and Labrador.