The Beothuk of Newfoundland: A Vanished PeopleA wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. |
Contents
The People and the Land | 5 |
Transportation | 8 |
Tools and Weapons | 15 |
Hunting and Warfare | 18 |
Mamateeks | 21 |
Social Life | 23 |
Food | 26 |
Clothing | 30 |
Arts and Beliefs | 32 |
Contacts with White People | 35 |
Common terms and phrases
AVALON PENINSULA bark dish beaver believed Beothuk campsite Beothuk canoes Beothuk graves Beothuk Indians Beothuk language Beothuk lived Beothuk women Beothuk words birch bark boiled bone pendants bows and arrows Buchan Bucket burial camp caribou drive caribou skins carved bone chief Nonosbawsut clothes coast Cormack covered Dame Bay dead decorated Demasduwit Dorset Eskimos drawn by Shanawdithit dried edges eggs Eskimos Exploits Island Exploits River families fences fish fishermen found in Beothuk FUNK ISLAND GERALD SQUIRES ground harpoon head houses hunted caribou hunter John Cartwright John Guy keelson killed Labrador leather mammals Marines Micmac moccasins Newfoundland Notre Dame Bay Overleaf packages person poles Red Indian devil Red Indian Lake red ochre robe rubbed with red salmon Sea birds seal fat settlers sewing sheets of birch shore sides skilled smoke snowshoe songs spear spruce Summer mamateeks tail tied trees tribes whales winter mamateek wooden handle