The Aboriginal People of New Foundland
Date Submitted: 08/08/2004 06:40:49
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 4 pages (1102 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 4 pages (1102 words)
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 …
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Marshall, Ingeborg. History and the Ethnography of the Beothuk., McGill Queens
University Press.: 1996, Canada.
Marshall, Ingeborg. The Red Ochre People: How Newfoundland's Beothuk Indians
Lived., J.J. Douglas Ltd.: 1977, Vancouver.
Rowe, Frederick., The Beothuks of Newfoundland, McGraw Hill Ryerson Limited.:
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Shermen, Ron, 'Newfoundland,' World Book Encyclopedia, 1992 ed.
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