Newfoundland, the historic home of the Beothuk. The Beothuk (/ b iː ˈ ɒ t ə k / or / ˈ b eɪ. ə θ ʊ k /; also spelled Beothuck) [1] [2] were a group of Indigenous people of Canada who lived on the island of Newfoundland. [3] The Beothuk culture formed around 1500 CE.

2006年2月6日 · Beothuk (meaning “the people” or “true people” in their language) were an Indigenous people who traditionally inhabited Newfoundland. At the time of European contact in the 16th century, the Beothuk may have numbered no more than 500 to 1,000.

2014年10月30日 · Newfoundland, Canada’s youngest province, has been inhabited for thousands of years. The Vikings first landed in North America well before Christopher Columbus was even born. When they arrived in, what is now called Newfoundland and Labrador, they …

2006年12月6日 · Lying off Canada’s East Coast, Newfoundland makes up one part of Canada’s tenth Province, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Beothuk may descend from a people called the Maritime Archaic, who inhabited Newfoundland and Labrador from around 5500-1000 BC.

2024年11月30日 · Beothuk, North American Indian tribe of hunters and gatherers that resided on the island of Newfoundland; their language, Beothukan, may be related to Algonquian, but some authorities believe it to have been an independent language.

2019年1月31日 · For centuries, the Beothuk lived as hunter-gatherers in Newfoundland. They built light-weight birch bark canoes for long voyages on the Newfoundland waterways, painted their bodies in ochre, and wore cloaks made from caribou skins.

2024年2月4日 · Because they smeared their bodies, hair, clothes and tools with an oil-based red ochre, the Beothuk were called “Red Indians”

There are very few 16th century reports of native people in Newfoundland and none are reliable descriptions of Beothuk. What emerges from the records is that by the mid-1500s Newfoundland’s native population was said to be austere and to avoid contact. We fare better in the 17th century.

2009年11月5日 · The Beothucks, or Red Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland by Howley, James Patrick, 1847-1918; Cormack, W. E. (William Eppes), 1796-1868

So far as known only a single tribe, called Beothuk, which inhabited the island of Newfoundland when first discovered, constituted this family, although existing vocabularies indicate marked dialectic differences.