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 ...

fearsome land across the ocean. But in reality, the first documented contact between Europeans and North America was with the Norse in AD 1000, who met with either Dorset or Beothuk natives in ...

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 ...