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The location of Shanawdithit’s grave is not known, but the skulls of her aunt and uncle — a chief — languish in a museum in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The remains of at least 22 Beothuk are held in Canadian museum vaults.
Calls made to repatriate Beothuk remains - Nfld. & Labrador - CBC News
For decades, the skeletons of a 6’6” Beothuk man and a child had been on full display at the Newfoundland Museum in St. John’s. The remains, though, have long been packed away, as well as others.
Researchers have done some DNA and isotope testing, to confirm genetic connections to contemporary aboriginal people. Funding for that research, though, ran out a couple of years ago, and the project is at a standstill.
