Who Were the First Outsiders to Make Contact with the Beothuk

question 5

Multiple Choice

Who were the first outsiders to make contact with the Beothuk and Inuit of the eastern Arctic?

• A) Siberian hunters following herds of caribou
• B) English explorers searching for the Northwest Passage
• C) American whalers searching for better hunting grounds
• D) Norse settlers who settled in Greenland and Newfoundland

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