The Beothuk ( /biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothic, Beothick, Beothuck) were one of the historical aboriginal peoples in Canada. The small group of people lived on the island of Newfoundland at the time of European contact in the 15th and 16th centuries. With the 1829 death of Shanawdithit, a woman in her late twenties who was the last known living Beothuk, the people became officially extinct as a discrete ethnic group.

Beothuk means "people" in the Beothuk language. The origins of the Beothuk are uncertain. There are limited records of their language, and theories about its origin are controversial. While some linguists believe it is a branch of Algonquian, it is generally regarded as a language isolate, with information too fragmentary and unreliable to make any definite connections to other languages.

Beginning around AD 1500, the Beothuk culture formed. This appeared to be the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from Labrador to present-day Newfoundland around AD 1. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.

Christina Martin (born January 1980) is a British comedian, actor and writer.

She came third in the 2006 Funny Women Awards. She was a feature writer for Viz Comic between 2006 and 2009 and wrote for New Humanist magazine between 2007 and 2009. 'God Trumps', her feature from the Nov/Dec 2008 issue, is the most viewed online article in New Humanist history with 90,000 hits in 2 days and has now been made into a playable card game. She has appeared on the BBC7 show Festival Atmosphere 2006 and the BBC Radio 4 show 28 Acts in 28 Minutes. She was also part of the writing team for the Radio 4 show 'Recorded for Training Purposes' and wrote one episode of 'The Now Show'