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The Beothuks

The Aboriginal People of Newfoundland Bibliography
Grabowski, Jan. Lecture His 2401, October 4, 1996. Email
address: Howley, James Patrick. The Beothuks or Red
Indians: The Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland.
University of Cambridge Press., Cambridge, England.
Marshall, Ingeborg. History and the Ethnography of the
BeothukMcGill)Queens University Press.: 1996, Canada.
Marshall, Ingeborg C.L.. Reports and Letters by George
Christopher Pulling: Relating to the Beothuk Indians of
Newfoundland Breakwater Books.: 1989, St.John's,
Newfoundland. Marshall, Ingeborg. The red Ochre People:
How Newfoundland'sBeothuk Indians Lived. J.J. Douglas
Ltd.: 1977, Vancouver. Rowe, Frederick W..
EXTINCTION: The Beothuks of Newfoundland
McGraw)Hill Ryerson Limited.: 1977, Toronto. The
Beothuk people of Newfoundland were not the very first
inhabitants of the island. Thousands of years before their
arrival there existed an ancient race, named the Maritime
Archaic Indians who lived on the shores of Newfoundland.
(Red Ochre Indians, Marshall, 4.) Burial plots and polished
stone tools are occasionally discovered near Beothuk
remains. Some people speculate that, because of the
proximity of the artifacts to the former lands of the Beothuk,
the Maritime Archaic Indians and the Beothuk may have
been related. It is not certain when the Beothuk arrived on
the island. In fact little is actually known about the people,
compared to what is known about other amerindian
civilisations, only artifacts and stories told by elders tell the
historians who these people really were. Some speculate that
they travelled from "Labrador to Newfoundland across the
strait of Belle Isle, which at one time was only 12 miles wide.
By about 200 AD the Beothuk Indians were probably well
settled into Newfoundland."(Red Ochre, 8) The Beothuk
were not alone on Newfoundland wither. The Dorset
Eskimos, who came from Cape Dorset regions of the north
around 500 BC also shared the island. They presumably had
contact with the Beothuk, exchanging tools or engaging in
battle. In any case the Dorset Indians died out leaving
Newfoundland empty to the control of the Beothuk people
who now had no enemies and a wide vast territory. The
Beothuk, although part of the Algonkian family developed
their own language and culture. The 400 words that are still
known from their language prove their Algonkian heritage.
The development of their culture was a great success. The
suc...

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