Editing Beothuk language (section)

==Recorded song==
In 1910, American [[anthropologist]] [[Frank Speck]] recorded a 74-year-old native woman named Santu Toney singing a song purported to be in the language. The recording resurfaced at the very end of the 20th century. Some sources give the year 1929, but the 1910 date is confirmed in Speck's book ''Beothuk and Micmac'' (New York 1922, p.&nbsp;67). The words are hard to hear and not understood. Santu said she had been taught the song by her father, which may be evidence that one person with a Beothuk connection was alive after the death of Shanawdithit in 1829 since Santu Toney was born about 1835). Contemporary researchers have tried to make a transcription of the song and to clean up the recording with modern methods. Native groups have learned the song.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.lportepilot.ca/News/2008-09-10/article-1423205/Santus-Song/1 | last = Perry | first = SJ | title = Santu's Song: Memorable day for Beothuk Interpretation Centre | work = Porte Pilot | date = 2008-09-10 | access-date = 2010-01-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120309041803/http://www.lportepilot.ca/News/2008-09-10/article-1423205/Santus-Song/1 | archive-date = 2012-03-09 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

[[James P. Howley]], Director of the [[Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador|Geological Survey of Newfoundland]], who for more than forty years was interested in the history of the Beothuk, doubted (in 1914) the truthfulness of Santu Toney.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-26 |title=View of Santu's Song {{!}} Newfoundland and Labrador Studies |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/article/view/10104/10365 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426191237/https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/article/view/10104/10365 |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=journals.lib.unb.ca}}</ref>