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The Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothuck)^[1][2] were a group of Indigenous people of Canada who lived on the island of Newfoundland.^[3]

The Beothuk culture formed around CE 1,500. This may have been the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from Labrador to present-day Newfoundland around CE 1. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.^[4]