*It means “awake” in Beothuk, the language and people who once called present-day Newfoundland home for about 2,000 years. One young woman, believed to be the last living Beothuk, left a collection of ...

A St. John's genetics specialist has found DNA connections that link the Beothuk people to contemporary people, almost two centuries after the last known Beothuk died. Steve Carr, a biology professor ...

Perhaps some Newfoundlanders are blasé about the extinction of the Beothuk, but Michael Crummey is not one of them. He grew up in Buchans, a small mining town in the centre of the province, near Red ...

A North Carolina woman says DNA testing has revealed that she is Beothuk, a descendant of an Indigenous people from Newfoundland whose last known member died in 1829. Geneticists say the woman's claim ...

Chief Misel Joe says the fishermen who were upset, saying the Mi'kmaq people were getting preferential treatment, were directing their frustrations at the wrong party. Aboriginal groups want bones of ...

The first European fishermen called the Beothuk "The Red Indians," because they painted masks of ochre on their faces. But beyond rare glimpses through the forest, the two groups had little contact ...

One of the saddest days in the history of colonialism and Aboriginal People is being remembered at an East Vancouver art gallery. On that day in 1819 a group of settlers captured a woman named ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Zooarchaeological and ethnohistorical evidence for Beothuk settlement patterns is discussed under three periods: for the later seventeenth and ...

For centuries, the Beothuk were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland. The woman beleived to be the last remaining Beothuk died in 1829. Not nearly as much is known about them as is ...

Canadian offshore wind developer Beothuk Energy may walk away from its 180MW St. George’s Bay development off Newfoundland if it cannot secure an off-take deal by the end of 2017, chief executive ...

HAMBURG, GERMANY--(Marketwired - Sep 28, 2016) - Beothuk Energy ("Beothuk") is pleased to announce a partnership with one of the world's leading offshore wind investors, Copenhagen Infrastructure ...