Beothuk People
The Beothuk ( /biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothic, Beothick, Beothuck) were one of the historical aboriginal peoples in Canada. The small group of people lived on the island of Newfoundland at the time of European contact in the 15th and 16th centuries. With the 1829 death of Shanawdithit, a woman in her late twenties who was the last known living Beothuk, the people became officially extinct as a discrete ethnic group.
Read more about Beothuk People: History and Culture, European Contact, Extinction, Genocide, Archaeology
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