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The history of the Beothucks of Newfoundland and Labrador
Title: The history of the Beothucks of Newfoundland and Labrador
Category: History / North American History
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The history of the Beothucks of Newfoundland and Labrador
Historical Background
<Tab/>The Beothuk people lived on the island of Newfoundland. They lived there for around 900 years. There are three main ideas as to how they arrived in the region. They could have walked across the Bering Strait from Labrador as the ice retreated. It is also possible that they canoed across the Cabot Strait from Nova Scotia. Another, newer possibility is that they descended from the Maritime Archaic Indians …showed first 75 words of 2569 total…
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Reference list
1. Forest, Marjorie G. (13 January 2004) Hounded into extinction. G.C. Rowe Vertical File.
2. Young, Ron. Was Shawnawdithit the last of the Beothuks? Downhomer Magazine.
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3. (20 January 2004) The Beothuks of Boyd's Cove. G.C. Rowe Vertical File.
4. Marshall, Ingeborg (1989). The Beothuk of Newfoundland. Newfoundland: Juvenile Literature.
5. Marshall, Ingeborg (1977) The Red Ochre People. Vancouver: JJ Douglas Ltd.
6. Beothuk Institute. (22, January 2004) [On-line] http://www.beothukinstitute .com
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