Beothuk world view and religious practices

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English observers maintained either that the Beothuk had no religion, or that it “the religion of this people rises but little above such harmless trifling observances.” (Howley 1915:39) Beothuk world view and their religious practices as described by Shanawdithit, however, appears to have constituted a pervasive force in their lives, influencing individual […]

Basque, Beothuk and the big squeeze

I’ve been working a theory over in my head for the last few days based on historic documentation and archaeology sites. It centres around the lack of Beothuk sites on the south coast and how this lack of sites may be due to newcomers to the area. A few weeks ago, I did a blog […]

Contemporary Indigenous sites

Over the last few days, I have found myself looking back over previous posts and I realized I have not written many on sites based on an occupation by contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador. In order to rectify this, I will start with a post about the numbers of archaeologically or ethnographically recorded […]