22 October 2007

The last of the Beothuk

I shall have to pop round to Greenwich someday soon to see the model of a birch bark canoe that is soon to go on display and which represents the work of the last of the Beothuk people, Shanawdithit, who died in Newfoundland amongst white settlers in 1829. Shanawdithit is said never to have smiled a fact that should surprise no one.

But just remember according to Michael Medved there was no genocide, just an unfortunate accident.

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