Debunking Common Misconceptions about the Beothuk

Jude L

This factsheet identifies and dismantles common myths about the Beothuk People of Newfoundland and of the histories and present realities of other Indigenous Peoples in Newfoundland. Myths about the Beothuk include those of hostility, avoidance of English settlers, lack of intermarriage between Mi’kmaq and Beothuk, Beothuk isolation from other Indigenous groups and the false belief that no Beothuk People live today, and this factsheet provides concrete facts to the contrary.

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References

The Beothuk Story. Film. Directed by Christopher Aylward. Zamura Films, 2022.

Source Authors

Christopher Aylward

Keywords

Archaeological Findings, Archeology, Ardy Landry, Beothuk, Beothuk Descendants, Beothuk Peoples, Beothuk-Mi'kmaq Relations, Bottom Broom Pond, Capture, Contact, David Buchan, Demasduit, Extinct, False Narratives, Falsely Extinct, Green Bay, Hostage, Hostility, Ingeborg Marshall, Innu Knowledge Keepers, Innu Oral History, Innu Peoples, intermarriage, invisible, Ivy Toney Landry, John Cabot, John Peyton Jr., Lies, Little Bay, M'kmaq Chief Mi'sel Joe, Mi'kmaq Peoples, Miawpukek First Nation, Misconceptions, Murder, Myths, Newfoundland, Nonosabasut, oral history, Peta'kewaq, Qalipu First Nation, Rev. Llyod Ryan, Santu Toney, settler society, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Settlers, Shanawdithit, Terra Nullius, Tshikapisk Foundation

Locations

Newfoundland