Hostages were exchanged as a gesture of trust; two of Buchan's men were left at the Beothuk camp, while two natives went with him, intending to return with gifts. The Beothuk were worried that ...

The first European fishermen called the Beothuk "The Red Indians," because they painted masks of ochre on their faces. But beyond rare glimpses through the forest, the two groups had little ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Beothuk: How A Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear by Christopher Patrick Aylward McGill-Queen’s University Press 298 pages, $44.95 “That history is written by the ...

A Qalipu man is renewing calls to have the name of a mountain in central Newfoundland changed, arguing it's named after a settler infamous for ordering the deaths of several dozen Beothuk — and ...