Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted story seriously questioned. Beothuk demonstrates the impossibility of writing Indigenous history without Indigenous storytellers.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- BEOTHUK 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- FIGURES 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 12
- NOTE ON SPELLING AND TERMINOLOGY 14
- Introduction 18
- 1 Early European Narratives about Indigenous People in Newfoundland 28
- 2 Howley versus Speck 72
- 3 The Archaeological Narrative of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 105
- 4 The Mi’kmaq Story 137
- 5 Newer Fragments of the Beothuk Story 174
- Conclusion 209
- NOTES 220
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 274
- INDEX 306
