Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables, Maps, Graphs, and Sketches xi
4. Plates xiv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 3
7. History
8. The Sixteenth Century: First Contact 13
9. The Seventeenth Century: Colonization, Trade, and Encroachment 25
10. Relations between Beothuk and Their Native Neighbours 42
11. Competition for Resources on the Coast 61
12. Hostilities over Hunting and Trapping 69
13. Lieut. John Cartwright Explores Beothuk Country 84
14. Intensified Conflict between Beothuk and Settlers 95
15. Plans to Conciliate the Beothuk 113
16. The Capture of Beothuk to Make Peace 122
17. Lieutenant Buchan’s Efforts Efforts to Make Contact 137
18. Micmac and Montagnais versus Beothuk: The Final Phase 154
19. The Captive Demasduit 160
20. 1822-27: The Boeothick Institution 181
21. Shanawdithit 201
22. Epilogue 224
23. Appendix One 235
24. Biographies of Major Informants 238
25. Ethnography
26. Introduction 249
27. Position of Beothuk in Newfoundland Prehistory 254
28. Distribution and Size of the Beothuk Population 272
29. Aspects of Social Organization 285
30. Food Consumption and Subsistence Economies 294
31. Tools and Utensils, Hunting and Fishing Techniques 311
32. Appearance and Clothing 336
33. Mamateeks and Other Structures 350
34. Birchbark Canoes and Other Means of Transportation 364
35. Beothuk World View and Belief-Related Practices 377
36. Burial Places and Mortuary Practices 398
37. Fighting Methods and Peace Tokens 421
38. The Beothuk Language 428
39. Concluding Discussion 438
40. Beothuk Namefile 447
41. Beothuk Artifact Collections 451
42. Institutions Contacted in Search of Beothuk Artifacts and Documentary Source Material 453
43. Notes 457
44. Bibliography 581
45. Index 621