Get the story here. The information on this site was gathered over a period of 40 years and published in 1914 by James P. Howley. It's not everything he could gather up about the Beothuk Indian tribe but there is a considerable amount of text to go through. There is a section showing and explaining 10 sketches by Shanawdithit, the last surviving Beothuk. Archaeologists believe that the Thule people first arrived on the Labrador coast around 1400 A.D., coming southward from Baffin Island.
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The text discusses what is considered to be the origins of these people, and continues with what is known about them up to the time of their extinction, which coincided closely with the arrival of Europeans to the island now known as Newfoundland. Lightspan Inc. All rights reserved.