1801-1829+Shawnadithit



Also remembered for drawings she made towards the end of her life, Shawnawdithit was in her late twenties when she died of [|tuberculosis] in [|St. John's, Newfoundland]
 * Nancy Shanawdithit,** was the last known living member of the [|Beothuk] people of [|Newfoundland], [|Canada].

As a child Shanawdithit was shot by a white trapper while washing [|venison] in a river. She suffered from the injury for some time, but recovered.

Most of her extended family had died from starvation, illness, exposure and British attacks

The British renamed Shanawdithit // Nancy April // and took her to [|Exploits Island] where she worked as a servant in the household of John Peyton Jr

Beginning in September 1828 she lived for some time in the household of [|William Eppes Cormack], a [|Scots] emigrant, Newfoundland [|entrepreneur] and [|philanthropist]. He founded the Beothuk Institution to study the tribe and drew funds from it to help support Shanawdithit. He recorded much of what she told him about her people and added notes to her drawings.

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