Indigenous peoples of Newfoundland

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The Indigenous peoples of Newfoundland are the original inhabitants of the island, including groups such as the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit, each with distinct cultures, histories, and relationships to the land and sea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous peoples of North America
ethnic group
associatedWith Gulf of St. Lawrence NERFINISHED
Newfoundland coastal regions
Newfoundland interior forests
North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED
country Canada
hasContemporaryGroup Innu communities in Labrador and Newfoundland region
Inuit communities in Labrador and coastal regions
Mi’kmaq communities in Newfoundland
hasCulturalPractice oral tradition
spiritual ceremonies
storytelling
traditional crafts
hasDistinctCulture Beothuk culture NERFINISHED
Innu culture
Inuit culture
Mi’kmaq culture
hasHistoricalExperienceOf dispossession of land
population decline after contact
hasHistoricalGroup extinct Beothuk people
hasOngoingIssue cultural revitalization
land rights
hasTraditionalRelationshipWith land
sea
historicallyAffectedBy European colonization
fur trade
missionary activity
settler expansion
historicalRegion Atlantic Canada NERFINISHED
includes Beothuk NERFINISHED
Innu NERFINISHED
Inuit NERFINISHED
Mi’kmaq NERFINISHED
languageFamily Algonquian languages
locatedIn Newfoundland and Labrador
locatedOn island of Newfoundland NERFINISHED
partOf Indigenous peoples of Canada NERFINISHED
recognizedWithin Canadian constitutional order
traditionalActivity caribou hunting
salmon fishing
sealing
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
trapping

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Conception Bay historicallyInhabitedBy Indigenous peoples of Newfoundland
NunatuKavut Inuit selfIdentification Indigenous peoples of Newfoundland
this entity surface form: Indigenous people of NunatuKavut
Grand Banks of Newfoundland historicallyFishedBy Indigenous peoples of Newfoundland
this entity surface form: Indigenous peoples of Atlantic Canada