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 ...

For decades after Cabot, both the British and French were preoccupied at home with religious travails, war and domestic politics ... probably Beothuk, back to Europe. In 1501 a ship, loaded ...

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 ...