The Passing of the "Red Indians of Newfoundland". Colonisation and Agency in the Beothuk's Extinction in the 17th-19th Centuries: Success and Failure

• Main Author: Maron, Philippe
• Other Authors: History and Politics - Division, orcid:0000-0002-8538-4829
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Beothuk; First Nations; colonisation; agency; taboo; Red Indian; ochre; middle ground; extinction; Indian; Middle Ground; Ochre; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30077; https://spark.stir.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Article-1-Red-Indians-of-Newfoundland-.pdf; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/30077/1/Article-1-Red-Indians-of-Newfoundland-.pdf

Achieving subsequent notoriety as the “Red Indians” for the 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. The settling of European fishermen along the coast progressively...