The passing of the "Red Indians of Newfoundland": Colonisation and Agency in the Beothuk's extinction in the 17th-19th Centuries

• Main Author: Maron, Philippe
• Other Authors: History and Politics - Division, orcid:0000-0002-8538-4829
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Beothuk; Newfoundland; Red Indians; Taboo; Colonialism; Middle Ground; Ochre; The Middle Ground
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29644; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/29644/1/Edinburghpaper.pdf

Achieving subsequent notoriety as the “Red Indians” for the conspicuous use of ochre on their bodies, the Beothuk were the main indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland at the time of contact with Europeans at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Living mainly on the inner coast from marine and riv...