1. By: Kim Croft and Christie MacNeil
The Beothuks
By: Kim Croft and
Christie MacNeil

2. Map of Geographic Area.

3. Historical Background
“Beothuk Artifacts The iron caribou spear (right) is of European manufacture. The others were fashioned by Beothuks (courtesy Newfoundland Museum).”
Archaeologists believe that the Beothuk inhabited Newfoundland long before the Europeans came.
In prehistoric time they were primarily from the coastal region.
Groups would go fishing and seal hunting.
“Demasduwit (Mary March) While trying to flee her captors, Demasduwit's husband and newborn baby were killed, and she eventually died of tuberculosis in 1820.”

4. Family Life
Families spent spring and summer by the coast hunting seals.
The collected up the eggs of sea birds.
They made carvings.

5. Culture
Some of the Beothuks physical culture is things left behind by them like their tools and weapons.
Their material culture developed out of the proceeding Little passage complex.

6. Language There is not much known about the Beothuk language.
They don’t know much because the Beothuk people stayed clear from the Europeans.
Europeans captured some people and tried to learn their language.

7. Housing and Travel
All the Beothuks used for traveling was mainly birch bark canoes.
They built houses called mamateeks that had little sleeping hollows inside.
They would clear the ground of all sticks and leaves and grass before making theses houses.

8. Clothing
Their coats didn't have proper sleeves they had a separate sleeve.
Their coat was made from several caribou skins sewed together.
They wore boots called moccasins.

9. Religious Practices
Beothuk necklaces worn at religious ceremonies, they were made of six decorated bone carvings and one animal tooth.
A tradition that they did at burials was to cover themselves in red ochre, they would spread red ochre on the ground at a burial.

10. Bibliography