the island. Thousands of years before their

arrival there existed an ancient race, named the Maritime Archaic Indians

who lived on the shores of Newfoundland. (Red Ochre Indians, Marshall, 4.)

Burial plots and polished stone tools are occasionally discovered near

Beothuk remains. Some people speculate that, because of the proximity of

the artifacts to the former lands of the Beothuk, the Maritime Archaic

Indians and the Beothuk may have been related. It is not certain when the

Beothuk arrived on the island. In fact little is actually known about the

people, compared to what is known about other amerindian civilisations,

only artifacts and stories told by elders tell the historians who these

people really were. Some speculate that they travelled from "Labrador to

Newfoundland across the strait of Belle Isle, which at one time was only

12 miles wide. By about 200 AD the Beothuk Indians were probably well

settled into Newfoundland."(Red Ochre, 8)

The Beothuk were not alone on Newfoundland wither. The Dorset

Eskimos, who came from Cape Dorset regions of the north around 500 BC also

shared the island. They presumably had contact with the Beothuk,

increasinglyenraged adn occationally mounted raids on European

the news about a new undescovered area in the north. Even before

one over the next and so on and produced a "thicket that the caribou could

eggs were harvested. The fall hunt was the most important, as it would

determine their success in surviving the winter months. The Beothuk

This can possibly be proven by the colour of the Beothuk's skin. Their

the Ethnography of the BeothukMcGill)Queens University Press.: 1996,

Indian people of North America have been called "red skins" for many

years. This expression comes from the european settlers who arrived in

water was the objective as " the animals could not move quickly in the

success of the Beothuk people as a whole was in part because of their

primarily there only to fish, little documentation is

available.After teh announcement to Britain had been proclaimed

was because of the construction of their canoes. Normally paddling on the

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