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A genetic analysis has found Beothuk genes in present-day humans, even though the last known member of the Indigenous group died in 1829.
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.
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.
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 ...
Beothuk 'genocide' remembered 200 years after kidnapping and murder A video installation by artist Rebecca Belmore is at the grunt gallery on the 200th anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of ...
The Beothuk didn't mingle with other indigenous peoples on the mainland, and their strategy for dealing with the Europeans was to withdraw. What else could they have done? he asks rhetorically.
In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland’s now-extinct Beothuk people. In the Cree ...
You don't want to start erasing history." As for the depictions of the Beothuk warriors, Cvet stressed that such images were not meant as macabre trophies or demeaning symbols of conquest.
But where did the word "redskin" come from? Many dictionaries and history books say the term came about in reference to the Beothuk tribe of what is now Newfoundland, Canada.
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.