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Shanawdithit (1801-June 6, 1829), also called Nancy April, is considered the last of the Beothuk, an indigenous language of the island of Newfoundland.

He is believed to have been born in 1801. Following the capture of Shanawdithit's aunt, Demasduwit, in 1819, the last Beothuk fled. She was captured with her mother and sister in the spring of 1823. Her father had previously died trying to escape from a group of hunters. The three women were taken to the town of St. John's in Newfoundland, where Shanawdithit's mother and sister died.

She was transferred to Exploits Island and worked as a servant in the home of John Peyton Jr. In September 1828, she was brought back to St. John's by William Cormack, who wrote down what she had told him about their people. She died in St. John's Hospital of tuberculosis in 1829.