Beothuk

Beothuk is a Canadian First Nation group in Newfoundland. It was the first and only First Nation group to be extinct.

Beothuk Media

• Beothuk language map.png

  Newfoundland, the historic home of the Beothuk

• Demasduit.jpg

  Description: Demasduit (1819)DESCRIPTION: Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March) 1819 watercolour on ivory *USE/REPRODUCTION: Copyright: Expired *Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1977-14-1 *ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: miniature painting, *Support: 7.5 x 6.5 cm (support ) *Inventory number: min035 *CREATORS: Hamilton, Lady Henrietta Martha (ca. 1780 -1857 ) (Artist)

• Shanawdithit (Boyd's Cove, NL) crop.jpg

  Statue of Shanawdithit in Boyd's Cove

• Carlb-beothuk-museum-2002.jpg

  The Beothuk tribe of Newfoundland is extinct as a cultural group. It is represented in museum, historical and archaeological records.

By 1500 CE, the Beothuk culture had developed. When people first moved from Labrador to modern-day Newfoundland about the year 1 CE, this might have been their most recent cultural expression. Three previous cultural periods, each lasting roughly 500 years, were experienced by the group's forefathers.