the beothucks or red indians the arboriginals inhabitants of newfoundlandCUP Archive |
Contents
Cabots Voyages | 1 |
SIXTEENTH CENTURY | 7 |
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 14 |
Notes from Various Sources between the date of Whitbournes Book 1622 and John Cartwrights | 22 |
Proclamation issued by His Excellency Capt the Hon John Byron in 1769 | 29 |
Parliamentary Papers | 49 |
Letter of Mr John Bland addressed to Governors Secretary | 56 |
NINETEENTH CENTURY | 62 |
Extracts from the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal Dec 1827 | 187 |
Letters of W E Cormack Esq addressed to John Stark Esq Secretary of the Beothuck | 197 |
Sixth Letter | 203 |
Manuscript of W E Cormacks apparently written after his last expedition in search of | 210 |
Letter to French Commandant | 218 |
Notes relative to the Red Indians from the Records of the Beothuck Institution Loose papers | 229 |
Death of W E Cormack | 234 |
Theories as to the origin of the Beothucks | 251 |
283 | 72 |
Contents | 94 |
Extract of a letter from St Johns dated Aug 1 1811 | 104 |
Resolutions of a Town Meeting respecting the Indians | 108 |
Colonial Correspondence | 119 |
Further characteristics of Mary March Waunathoake | 127 |
Depart from the sea coast | 135 |
Continue the journey into the western interior | 147 |
General features of the Western Interior | 155 |
Capture of three Beothuck women | 169 |
Extract of a disputation from R A Tucker Esq Administering to the Government of New | 174 |
Substance of Mr Curtiss Story | 179 |
Physical Features of the Beothucks | 257 |
Report of Bureau of Ethnology U S 18823 | 263 |
Inspector Grimes stories | 273 |
Rev Silas T Rands story | 284 |
Reconstructed Red Indian Grave Hangmans Island Placentia Bay | 292 |
First Paper by Albert S Gatschet read before the American Philosophical Society June 19th | 302 |
Notes on the Red Indians from A Journal of transactions and events during a residence | 314 |
Third Paper by Albert S Gatschet Read before the American Philosophical Society Jan | 317 |
Lloyds description of the implements he found | 323 |
Finding of Beothuck Skeletons | 330 |
Implements and Ornaments of the Beothucks | 336 |
Concluding remarks on the Red Indians | 342 |
Common terms and phrases
aborigines amongst appeared arms arrows Badger Bay Bay of Exploits beavers Beothuck Beothuck Institution birch bark birch rind boat body bone Buchan canoe Cape Cape Ray Capt capture Cod Roy colour David Buchan deer skins discovered encampment endeavour English European expedition Exploits River feet female fire fish fishermen fishery formed friendly furriers Governor ground Harbour head inhabitants intercourse interior Island John Peyton John Stark journey killed Labrador language Leigh letter Mary March Micmacs miles mountains Native Indians Newfoundland night Notre Dame Bay party person pond probably Red Indian Lake red ochre remains resident River Exploits rocks sail salmon savages savannas seen Shanawdithit shore shot side signed sledges snow spear St George's Bay St John's summer trees tribe Trinity Bay Twillingate venison vocabulary W. E. Cormack White Bay wigwams winter woods