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<p>[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 3685048, member: 301"]The establishment of permanent European settlements in the 1700s significantly altered the Beothuk way of life. With the French at <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/placentia/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/placentia/" rel="nofollow">Placentia</a> and the English settled in areas from <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conception-bay/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conception-bay/" rel="nofollow">Conception Bay</a> to <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bonavista-bay/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bonavista-bay/" rel="nofollow">Bonavista Bay</a>, the Beothuk withdrew from European contact and became increasingly isolated. By the mid-1700s, English settlement in Newfoundland increased. The Beothuk now had to compete with white fur trappers who were familiar with the Newfoundland interior. (<i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fur-trade/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fur-trade/" rel="nofollow">Fur Trade</a>.) In addition, they were increasingly denied access to bays where they fished. This created tension, and at times, conflict, between the Beothuk and the Europeans.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the early 1800s, their population was subsequently reduced, as they were forced to live along the <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/exploits-river/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/exploits-river/" rel="nofollow">Exploits River</a> system and subsist on the inadequate food and shelter resources of the interior. Some historians also argue that European disease — namely <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tuberculosis/" rel="nofollow">tuberculosis</a> — may have contributed the reduction in their population. During this time, the Beothuk were displaced, and some, such as <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit/" rel="nofollow">Demasduwit</a> — one of the last Beothuk — were forcibly taken by Europeans or killed.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>DID YOU KNOW?</b> </p><p>In 1827, Scottish naturalist and explorer <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-cormack" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-cormack" rel="nofollow">William Cormack </a>took the skulls of two Beothuk people, <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit" rel="nofollow">Demasduwit</a> (Demasduit) and her husband, Chief Nonosbawsut, as well other burial items, and sent them to his mentor Robert Jameson, a professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The remains were eventually housed at the National Museum of Scotland. </p><p><font size="4"><b><b>Disappearance</b></b></font></p><p><a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beothuk#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beothuk#" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://tce-live2.s3.amazonaws.com/media/media/b48d8c52-db0e-4906-bb22-a24aa289fe23.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>As a result of European encroachment, slaughter and diseases to which they had no natural resistance, the Beothuk’s numbers diminished rapidly following contact. The last known surviving Beothuk, <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/article/shawnadithit/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/article/shawnadithit/" rel="nofollow">Shawnadithit</a>, died of tuberculosis in <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns/" rel="nofollow">St. John’s</a> in June 1829.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 3685048, member: 301"]The establishment of permanent European settlements in the 1700s significantly altered the Beothuk way of life. With the French at [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/placentia/']Placentia[/URL] and the English settled in areas from [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conception-bay/']Conception Bay[/URL] to [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bonavista-bay/']Bonavista Bay[/URL], the Beothuk withdrew from European contact and became increasingly isolated. By the mid-1700s, English settlement in Newfoundland increased. The Beothuk now had to compete with white fur trappers who were familiar with the Newfoundland interior. ([I]See also[/I] [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fur-trade/']Fur Trade[/URL].) In addition, they were increasingly denied access to bays where they fished. This created tension, and at times, conflict, between the Beothuk and the Europeans. By the early 1800s, their population was subsequently reduced, as they were forced to live along the [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/exploits-river/']Exploits River[/URL] system and subsist on the inadequate food and shelter resources of the interior. Some historians also argue that European disease — namely [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tuberculosis/']tuberculosis[/URL] — may have contributed the reduction in their population. During this time, the Beothuk were displaced, and some, such as [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit/']Demasduwit[/URL] — one of the last Beothuk — were forcibly taken by Europeans or killed. [B]DID YOU KNOW?[/B] In 1827, Scottish naturalist and explorer [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-cormack']William Cormack [/URL]took the skulls of two Beothuk people, [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit']Demasduwit[/URL] (Demasduit) and her husband, Chief Nonosbawsut, as well other burial items, and sent them to his mentor Robert Jameson, a professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The remains were eventually housed at the National Museum of Scotland. [SIZE=4][B][B]Disappearance[/B][/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beothuk#'][IMG]https://tce-live2.s3.amazonaws.com/media/media/b48d8c52-db0e-4906-bb22-a24aa289fe23.jpg[/IMG][/URL] As a result of European encroachment, slaughter and diseases to which they had no natural resistance, the Beothuk’s numbers diminished rapidly following contact. The last known surviving Beothuk, [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/article/shawnadithit/']Shawnadithit[/URL], died of tuberculosis in [URL='https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns/']St. John’s[/URL] in June 1829.[/QUOTE]
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