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Every Wednesday, the National Post rounds up Canada’s top local news stories. This week, alternative theories on the disappearance of the Beothuk, a burglar with a eye for kitsch and a Calgary non-profit reveals the going rate for human milk.

Nearly two centuries after the recorded extinction of the Newfoundland Beothuk, a Mi’kmaq chief is contending that science will soon prove what his people have known for generations: The Beothuk live.

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Known as the Lost People of Newfoundland, the Beothuk were ravaged by massacres, epidemics and territorial losses until, by the early 19th century, the group is said to have been completely wiped out.

That “pisses me off … because it’s not accurate,” said Chief Mi’sel Joe of the Miawpukek First Nation, speaking this week to The Aurora, a Labrador City-based newspaper.

Rather, he said, Mi’kmaq oral history hold that as white incomers tightened their control of the Atlantic island, the Beothuk fled to the mainland and integrated with neighbouring groups.