The Indigenous Extinction Narrative

Daniel T.

This factsheet explores how European romantic literature in the 18th and 19th centuries created the Indigenous extinction narrative. The facthsheet details historical encounters between British settlers and the Beothuk up to the 20th century to illustrate how false images are suggested by extinction narratives.

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References

Cariou, W. (2016). "Indigenous Rights and the Undoomed Indian." European Romantic Review (27), no.3: pp. 309-318. DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2016.1163784
Marshall, I. "A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk." Beothukinstitute.ca, 1996. https://beothukinstitute.ca/
Sitara, G. "The Fight Between the French and British for Turtle Island, or the Seven Years War." [Lecture] University of Victoria, BC, October 13, 2020.
Tuck, J. A. (2006). "Beothuk." The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beothuk

Source Authors

Georgia Sitara, Ingeborg Marshall, James A. Tuck, Warren Cariou

Keywords

Canada's Colonial History, Colonial Exploitation, Colonial settlement, Colonial Violence, Colonialism, European Settlers, Harmful Ideas, Interrupting Assumptions, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, Knowledge and Power, Land Dispossession, Language of Rights, Museums, Myths and Power, Nation Building Narrative, Ongoing Colonialism, Racist Violence, Royal Proclamation, Settler Fantasy, Settler-Indigenous Relations, shanawdithit, Stories and Power, Storytelling, Terra Nullius, Unsettling Settlers

Key Figures

John Peyton, Shanawdithit, William Cormack

Locations

Beothuk Territory, British North America, Newfoundland, North America, Turtle Island

Themes

History, Theory