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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		One of the latter groups, labouring in the snow and pursued by John Peyton Jr, threw herself down, exposing her breasts in a gesture of supplication, and was captured; this was Demasduwit.
		Gentle, intelligent, and tractable, Demasduwit is said to have evinced particular attachment to her captor, Peyton Jr.
		All proved unsuccessful, however, and Demasduwit was again given into the care of Leigh at Fogo and Twillingate, the occasion permitting him to continue the compilation of a vocabulary of the Beothuk language from information derived from her.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36484 (1074 words)

	Nonosbawsut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sometimes referred to as Chief Nonosbawsut, his stature within the last remaining Beothuk would better be describe as that of a headman or leader.
		Nonosbawsut's body was placed in a sepulchre, later to be joined by his infant son and eventually Demasduwit herself.
		In 1828, the sepulchre was found by William Cormack, who at that time removed the skulls and some of the grave goods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nonosbawsut (423 words)

	Demasduwit - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Demasduwit was captured, Nonosbawsut, her husband and the leader of the group, was killed while attempting to prevent her capture.
		Demasduwit was taken to Twillingate and for a time lived with the Church of England minister, Reverend John Leigh.
		Demasduwit's niece, a young woman named Shanawdithit, was the last known Beothuk.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Demasduwit (475 words)

	Beothuks: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In 1819, Demasduwit[?], re-named Mary March, was kidnapped with hopes that she would become a translator and intermediary between the English settlers and Beothuks.
		Demasduwit's niece, a teenage girl named Shanawdithit[?], was the last known Beothuk.
		She was captured in 1823 and re-named Nancy.
	www.encyclopedian.com /be/Beothuks.html (272 words)

	Shanawdithit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is thought to have been born in 1801.
		After the capture of Shanawdithit's aunt, Demasduwit, also Mary March in 1819, the few remaining Beothuk people had fled.
		In the spring of 1823 her father had died when he fell through the ice while trying to escape from a group of hunters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanawdithit (471 words)

	The Natives in Placentia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She was captured by a party of furriers in 1818 and lived in St. John's for several months before dying of tuberculosis.
		In an attempt to show their peaceable intentions, authorities carried Demasduwit's corpse inland to an unoccupied Beothuk camp and left it, surrounded with gifts.
		Demasduwit's portrait was painted by Lady Hamilton, wife of the governor of Newfoundland.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /placentia/natives.htm (1715 words)

	Beothuk language dgun.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is sometimes assumed to be part of the neighboring Algonquian language family, but there is insufficient evidence to draw any strong conclusions, and this theory has not gained general acceptance.
		The few words of the language which are known came from captives such as Demasduwit and Shanawdithit.
		A recording of the Beothuk language in song, as performed by a 75-year old native woman named Santu, was made in 1910 by the American anthropologist Frank Speck, and resurfaced at the very end of the twentieth century.
	planet.en.dgun.org /en/Beothuk+language (3915 words)

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		Two marines who were left behind at the Beothuk camp were eventually murdered and had their heads cut off by the nervous Beothuk.
		In 1819, Demasduwit or Mary March was captured by English setters.
		Her husband who tried to come to her aid was killed and her baby left behind to die.
	www.k12.nf.ca /mobile/Beothuk/page8.htm (272 words)

	CM Magazine: The Spirit of Canada: Canada's Story in Legends, Fiction, Poems and Songs. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hehner has been careful to balance famous and little-known pieces in her anthology.
		Readers will be glad to find old favourites, such as "The Cremation of Sam McGee," "In Flanders Fields" and the "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," sharing space with Stella Whelan's haunting lament for Demasduwit, a Beothuk woman captured in 1819 and renamed "Mary March" and Nancy Prasad's empathetic "You Have Two Voices," a celebration of mother-tongue fluency.
		The Spirit of Canada has more than one hundred fully illustrated selections with one hundred and fifty original pieces of artwork by fifteen of Canada's most celebrated children's artists, including Zhong-Yang Huang, Don Kilby, George Littlechild, Bill Slavin and Janet Wilson.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol7/no4/spiritofcanada.html (534 words)

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