EVENT: Day of Truth and Reconciliation – at Beothuk Interpretation Centre
On September 30th, all are invited in the spirit of truth and reconciliation to share time together connecting, storytelling, learning
Read MoreVoices On the Wind 2024- at Beothuk Interpretation Centre
September 7th - Voices on the Wind- at the Beothuk Interpretation Centre. Annual Event celebrating our connection to the Beothuk people
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AGM Coming Up – April 14, 2024
Our 2024 AGM is ccoming up on April 14, 2024 at the Sple’tk Mi’kmaq Language Center, 6 High Street, Grand Falls-Windsor
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Summary of 2023 Tracing Shanawdithit Archaeological Project
This two year project has helped identify camps and other sites that a small group of Beothuk people took in search of basic sustenance
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Field Trip to Aspen Island – August 2023
The Board of Beothuk Insitute explored some of the sites where the Beothuk lived and to see where many had been killed
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Searching for 1823 Camp
Archaeologist Laurie McClean and his team searches for one of the places where Shanawdithit had camped in 1823.
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AGM Coming Up – May 28, 2023
The Beothuk Institute Inc. will be holding its AGM on May 28, 2023 at the Beothuk Interpretation Centre in Boyd's Cove
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The Revival of the Beothuk Institute 1997
In the mid 1800s the Beothuk Institute had outlived its usefulness. In 1997 it was revived. Find out how and why (by Desmond Canning)
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How The Beothuk Institute Began
Read about the history of the Beothuk Institute looking back to its origin in 1827 and the connection to Shanawdithit (by Desmond Canning)
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Tracing Shanawdithit December 2022
The latest paper by Laurie McLean, Consulting Archaeologist, Tracing Shanawdithit: Badger Bay as a Focal Point for the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Beothuk
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