The Beothuk of Newfoundland
A Vanished People
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jul 1991
- Category
- Baltic States
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920911181
- Publish Date
- Jul 1991
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781550813050
- Publish Date
- Jul 1991
- List Price
- $12.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9
- Grade: 4
Description
A 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.
About the author
Ingeborg Marshall has studied with great interest The Beothuk of Newfoundland since she became a resident of the province of Newfoundland. In 1984 she received a Masters of Anthropology from Memorial University. Her masters thesis, Beothuck Bark Canoes: An Analysis and Comparative Study was published by the National Museum in Ottawa. Her research on the Beothukk has included archaeological surveys of various camp and burial sites in the Notre Dame Bay area and systematic search of Archives in Canada and abroad for previously uncovered documents of the Beothuk.
Librarian Reviews
The Beothuk of Newfoundland: A Vanished People
We know about the Beothuk culture through drawings and information passed on by one of the last Beothuks, Sahanawdithit, a young woman who lived for several years with settlers. She passed away in the mid 1800s. Other sources of information include artifacts and information recorded by those who came in contact with the Beothuk people. Chapter titles include Transportation, Food and Clothing. We learn that the Beothuk built fifty kilometres of fence in order to trap caribou. They played a gambling game involving tossing bone pieces and stored meat in birchbark dishes between layers of caribou fat, then burying these bundles in pits.Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. 2008-2009.
