beothuk n Current commercial names have var spellings: beothic, beothick, beothuck, beothuk [phonetics unavailable].
   1 1981 MAJOR 74 All the teacher asked him was how he thought the Beothucks would be treated if there was some still alive today. 1983 NEARY & O'FLAHERTY 18 Recent archaeological excavation at Cape Freels shows that the Beothucks were living in coastal Newfoundland from A.D. 200 to 750. Thus, somewhat surprisingly, they co-existed for about four centuries with the Dorset Eskimo culture.

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