A history and ethnography of the Beothuk

"The story of the Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, is tragic. Their population steadily declined with the influx of European settlement in the 1700s and by 1829 Shanawdithit, the last of the Beothuk, had died. Conflict with other native groups and disease played a role in their demise, but it was “ruthlessness and brutality” by the English that ultimately led to their extinction. The outcome of twenty years of research, this award-winning book illuminates the origins, history, and fate of the Beothuk." -- Provided by Publisher

Call Number: 
E99 .B4 M37 1996
Title Responsibility: 
Ingeborg Marshall.
Author Information: 
Ingeborg Marshall is an honorary research associate with the Institute of Social Economic Research at Memorial University. In 2007, she was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree at the Memorial University fall convocation, for her contribution to the scholarly understanding of the Beothuk.
Production Place: 
Montreal :
Producer: 
McGill-Queen's University Press,
Production Date: 
c1996.
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Beothuk; Inuit; Montagnais; Miꞌkmaq
Reviews: 

"A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Jan. 1997, p. 864. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A34265515/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=BR....

A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk." Canadian Historical Review, vol. 82, no. 1, 2001, p. 141. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A35112874/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=BR....

Brown, Jennifer S.H. "A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk." Canadian Literature, no. 161162, 1999, p. 226+. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A55785447/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=BR....

Krech, Shepard, III. "A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk." Canadian Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 2, 1998, p. 332+. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A20998196/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=BR....

Prins, Harald E.L. "A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk." American Anthropologist, vol. 99, no. 3, 1997, p. 657+. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A20031546/BRIP?u=utoronto_main&sid=BR....

Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
479466
Law Subject(s): 
Colonialism
Law & History