Beothuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Beothuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "By 1829, with the death of Shanawdithit, they were officially declared extinct though oral histories assert that a few Beothuk survived around the region of the Exploits River, Twillingate and Labrador for some years and mixed with 'whites', Inuit and Mi'kmaq.[9] Some families from Twillingate claim partial descent from Beothuks.

Relations with the Mi'kmaq, a native group who arrived in Newfoundland during the colonial period, and with the Labrador Inuit, were hostile but did not often descend into violence. Relations with the Inuit were marked by avoidance more than anything else.

In 1910, a 75-year old Native woman named Santu, said to have been the daughter of a Mi'kmaq mother and a Beothuk father, sang a song in the Beothuk language for the American anthropologist Frank Speck while she was on her way to Nova Scotia and down to New England."