The Red Ochre People of Newfoundland, who painted bodies and tools with red iron oxide and wintered along the Exploits River and Red Indian Lake.
Extinct: pushed from the coast by settlers and disease, the last known Beothuk, Shanawdithit, died of tuberculosis at St. John's in 1829.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Beothuk — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1497 · 1650 · 1800.
The definitive study of the Red Ochre People of Newfoundland and their extinction.
Places the Beothuk within the broader history of Canada's Indigenous peoples (broad context).
Giller Prize-shortlisted novel set in early-19th-century Newfoundland dramatizing the last years and extinction of the Beothuk, directly overlapping the polity's final decades (span ends 1829).