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Beothuk
Historical Indigenous people of Newfoundland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the ethnic group. For their language, see Beothuk language.
The Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothuck)[1][2] were a group of Indigenous people who lived on the island of Newfoundland.[3]
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The Beothuk culture formed around CE 1,500. This may have been the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from Labrador to present-day Newfoundland around CE 1. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.[4]