A member of an Indigenous people who lived in Newfoundland before European contact, or their language.
From the Beothuk language word meaning 'the people'. First documented by European explorers in the 15th-16th centuries, referring to the original inhabitants of Newfoundland.
The Beothuk people were tragically the first Indigenous group completely eliminated by European colonization—their extinction represents one of history's greatest cultural losses.
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