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European contact, and when European settlers arrived permanently, the Beothuk were cut off from their traditional coastal hunting grounds. Furthermore, there was no one to promote peaceful relations between the Beothuk and the settlers. As Newfoundland's population was so small, a missionary effort could not be supported, and the European governments were mainly interested in marine resources, so no agents were appointed to liaise with the native population. Further contributing to the Beothuk's demise was the arrival of European diseases in North America.
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which owns and operates in the museum, announced in
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Demasduit was born around 1796, near the end of the 18th century. It was once believed that the
Beothuk population had been decimated by conflict with European settlers. However, the most reliable research today suggests instead that the Beothuk population was very small, between 500 and 1,000 people
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population in this area." In May 2006, a group of local grade 2 students, led by student Conor O'Driscoll, helped collect more than 500 signatures on a petition to rename the museum to
Demasduit's original identity, rather than the name she was given after her capture. The director of The Rooms,
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in 2016, with Ball crediting Chief Mi'sel Joe specifically for beginning the process by bringing the issue to public attention. Their remains had been in
Scotland for 191 years when they were returned to Newfoundland and were stored at
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in Conne River first began the push for repatriation in 2015, and he was joined by other
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