23 Facts About Beothuk

Beothuk were a group of indigenous people who lived on the island of Newfoundland.

Beothuk lived throughout the island of Newfoundland, particularly in the Notre Dame and Bonavista Bay areas.

The Beothuk followed the seasonal migratory habits of their principal quarry.

Beothuk are known to have made a pudding out of tree sap and the dried yolk of the eggs of the great auk.

Beothuk canoes were made of caribou or seal skin, and the bow of the canoe was stiffened with spruce bark.

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Unlike some other indigenous groups, the Beothuk tried to avoid contact with Europeans; they moved inland as European settlements grew.

The Beothuk visited their former camps only to pick up metal objects.

Contact between Europeans and the Beothuk was usually negative for one side, with a few exceptions like John Guy's party in 1612.

Settlers and the Beothuk competed for natural resources such as salmon, seals, and birds.

Information about the Beothuk was based on accounts by the woman Shanawdithit, who told about the people who "wintered on the Exploits River or at Red Indian Lake and resorted to the coast in Notre Dame Bay".

Beothuk numbers dwindled rapidly due to a combination of factors, including:.

Oral histories suggest a few Beothuk survived around the region of the Exploits River, Twillingate, Newfoundland; and Labrador; and formed unions with European colonists, Inuit and Mi'kmaq.

Beothuk's recorded a song in the Beothuk language for the American anthropologist Frank Speck.

Since Santu Toney was born about 1835, this may be evidence some Beothuk people survived beyond the death of Shanawdithit in 1829.

Several Beothuk were captured by settlers from the Newfoundland Colony during the early 19th century.

Beothuk approved an expedition, to be led by the Scottish explorer David Buchan, to recover a boat and other fishing gear foraged by the Beothuk.

Buchan was accompanied by two soldiers; the Beothuk mistakenly thought Buchan had hostile intentions and killed and decapitated the soldiers accompanying him.

The Beothuk scattered, although Demasduit was unable to escape and begged for mercy, exposing her breasts to show she was a nursing mother with child.

Beothuk's expeditions found Beothuk artifacts but he learned the society was dying out.

Beothuk drew funds from his institute to pay for her support.

Beothuk's told him there were far fewer Beothuk than twenty years previously.

In summary, the Boyd's Cove Beothuk took debris from an early modern European fishery and fashioned materials.

However, a 2011 analysis showed although the two Beothuk and living Mi'kmaq occur in the same haplogroups, SNP differences between Beothuk and Mi'kmaq individuals indicate they were dissimilar within those groups, and a 'close-relationship' theory was not supported.