What Was The Beothuk Dbq

The beothuk were a first nations group from the past who lived like other native tribes and came into contact with europeans near the 1500’s, the beothuk are now an extinct species as a people. Some people believe as source 1 suggest that the europeans weren’t the ones who killed off the beothuk but the beothuk themselves, while others suggest that the europeans killed them through brutality force and diseases the beothuk weren’t prepared for. In reality the beothuk became extinct because of the items like the blankets that were traded were infected by smallpox and the beothuk sneaking past the europeans and the europeans shooting them as they sneak. As indicated in source 2, the beothuk were a strong people and they were prepared for most