Tracing Ochre : : Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk / / ed. by Fiona Polack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Aylward, Christopher,; Brantlinger, Patrick,; Chamberlin, J. Edward,; Diamond, Beverley,; Hanrahan, Maura,; Harries, John,; Joe, Chief Mi’Sel,; Lawrence, Bonita,; Leddy, Lianne C.,; Penashue, Elizabeth,; Polack, Fiona,; Pullman, Daryl,; Rankin, Lisa,; Sugars, Cynthia,; Thorpe, Jocelyn,; Yeoman, Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Polack, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Maps --; Introduction: De-islanding the Beothuk --; Part One: Land, Language, and Memory --; 1 Good and Bad Indians: Romanticizing the Beothuk and Denigrating the Mi’kmaq --; 2 When the Beothuk (Won’t) Speak: Michael Crummey’s River Thieves and Bernice Morgan’s Cloud of Bone --; 3 “The Ones That Were Abused”: Thinking about the Beothuk through Translation --; 4 A Clearing with a View to the Lake, the Bones of a Caribou, and the Sound of Snow Falling on Dead Leaves: Sensing the Presence of the Past in the Wilds of Newfoundland --; Part Two: Mercenaries, Myths, and DNA --; 5 Beothuk and Mi’kmaq: An Interview with Chief Mi’sel Joe --; 6 The Beothuk and the Myth of Prior Invasions --; 7 Bioarchaeology, Bioethics, and the Beothuk --; Part Three: Ways of Knowing --; 8 Towards a Beothuk Archaeology: Understanding Indigenous Agency in the Material Record --; 9 Historical Sources and the Beothuk: Questioning Settler Interpretations --; 10 Historical Narrative Perspective in Howley and Speck --; Part Four: Travelling Tales --; 11 Santu Toney, a Transnational Beothuk Woman --; 12 Routes of Colonial Racism: Travelling Narratives of European Progress and Indigenous Extinction in Pre-Confederation Newfoundland --; 13 Unrecognized Peoples and Concepts of Extinction --; 14 Shanawdithit and Truganini: Converging and Diverging Histories --; Coda: The Recovery of Indigenous Identity --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442623859; 9783110606799
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442623859
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Fiona Polack.

The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the early nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. Increasingly under scrutiny, non-Indigenous perceptions of the Beothuk have had especially dire and far-reaching ramifications for contemporary Indigenous people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Tracing Ochre reassesses popular beliefs about the Beothuk. Placing the group in global context, Fiona Polack and a diverse collection of contributors juxtapose the history of the Beothuk with the experiences of other Indigenous peoples outside of Canada, including those living in former British colonies as diverse as Tasmania, South Africa, and the islands of the Caribbean. Featuring contributions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers from a wide range of scholarly and community backgrounds, Tracing Ochre aims to definitively shift established perceptions of a people who were among the first to confront European colonialism in North America.