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BEOTHUK

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 757 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEOTHUK  , a tribe of

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North
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American
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Indians formerly dwelling in the interior of
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Newfoundland . A certain
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mystery attaches to them, since investigation of the few words of their
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language which have survived suggests that they were of distinct stock . The name (of
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Micmac origin) is said to mean simply " red men." They were bitterly hostile to the
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French settlers, and were hunted down and killed off until 182o, when a few survivors made their
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escape into Labrador . The last of them is believed to have died in 1829 .

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