Her tragic capture in 1819, the loss of her family, and her community’s struggle are a powerful reminder of the painful, traumatic history that all Indigenous peoples everywhere have endured for centuries
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Newfoundland #Beothuk #IndigenousHistory
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In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day today here in 🇨🇦, let us remember Demasduit, a Beothuk woman from the early 19th century -- one of the last of her people on Newfoundland
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Newfoundland #Beothuk #IndigenousHistory #TruthAndReconciliation
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Sunday's are a great excuse to sit down with a good #podcast and learn about the #culture, #indigenous peoples, and places you wish to visit.
Here's your excuse to dive into discovering Newfoundland & Labrador's Indigenous culture and history, while following in the footsteps of the #Beothuk. Have a listen: https://podcasts.roamancing.com/@RoamancingReads/episodes/discovering-indigenous-newfoundland-and-labrador-while-following-in-the-footsteps-of-the-beothuk-people And take a gander at the article to scroll through the photographs, while you listen: https://roamancing.com/2024/09/discovering-indigenous-newfoundland-labrador-in-the-footsteps-of-the-beothuk/
This is my ancestral territory, it belongs to #Mi'kmaq and #Beothuk and #Penobscot and #Piscataquis
we do not acknowledge princes, princesses, kings or queens as legitimate anything.
I was sleeping in my car in Sacramento, CA after earning and MBA and an undergrad in #Accountancy because a bunch of shithead #Canadians fancy themselves cartographers. Learn the native history of the land you photograph before you go describing it.
We followed in the footsteps of the #Beothuk & #Shanawdithit yesterday. This is a tragic story of cultural extinction in #NewfoundlandLabrador. In the midst of the sadness of loss that the #sculpture that #GeraldSquires designed in their remembrance evokes, there is also of sense of peace here in the forest by the place where there was once an active Beothuk Village filled with the voices of their people.
#Support4Local #HistoryTravels #IndigenousHistory #BoydsCove #Newfoundland
My personal essay “Saddles in the Kitchen” has been published by Redivider.
“In the 1970s, my family lived all over New Brunswick before settling down deep in the Appalachian hills of the Acadian forest. Every summer, we journeyed to Newfoundland to visit Dad’s family. I have snippets of memories from my infancy and early childhood. I recall being a baby on a plane with a smoking section, hoisted up to look over the rails of an icebreaker ferry called the William Carson….”
https://redivider.emerson.edu/saddles-in-the-kitchen/ @indigenousauthors #memoir #CNF #PersonalEssay #CanLit #WritingCommunity #ExJW #colonialism #religion #FamilyHistory #Inuit #Mikmaq #Beothuk #IndigenousMastodon #NativeMastodon #QueerLit #Newfoundland #Appalachia
Priceless artifacts found near untouched #Beothuk site in central #Newfoundland #Canada.
Beothuk Lake was the last refuge for Newfoundland's #Indigenous group. They struggled with European diseases, violent encounters, and losing crucial migration routes to colonization. Shawnadithit, widely recognized as the last Beothuk, died in 1829.
Among the items found were a pair of deer spears — metal rods taken from European settlements and sharpened at the tip to kill caribou; they're perhaps the best preserved
spears uncovered by #Archaeologists.
#Artifacts #AchaeologicalSite #IndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #Archaeology
Priceless artifacts found near untouched Beothuk site in central Newfoundland
* Beothuk Lake: last refuge for Newfoundland Indigenous
* struggled w. European diseases, violent encounters, losing crucial migration routes to colonization
* Shanawdithit, last Beothuk, died in 1829
Beothuk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beothuk
* indigenous people who lived on island of Newfoundland
* culture formed ca. 1500 AD
#Canada #Newfoundland #Indigenous #Beothuk #genocide #archaeology #extinction #colonialism
When the explorer Cabot got to Newfoundland in 1497, Columbus had already discovered America, so, it was definitely possible that this was the same land that Columbus had discovered. Still the name Newfoundland eventually did stick. Perhaps the British had every intention of using it as an excuse to settle and trade in the Americas, instead of just letting Spain and Portugal do whatever they wanted there.
But, perhaps, the British knew the history of this large island. They could have heard about the Viking sagas of settling a new colony past Iceland, past Greenland. A place they called Vinland. If these sagas were true, the Vikings were the first to discover these lands for Europeans.
Maybe the British tried to bury these discoveries, also, by calling it Newfoundland. This way they had a better claim to its shores and all that fish in the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Better to ignore the rumoured Vinland and claim this land for themselves.
It was only in the modern era when it was discovered that the Vikings left some remains in L’Anse aux Meadows. This was authenticated by archaeologists and is still the only known Viking Settlement in North America.
It’s possible that the indigenous Beothuk drove them out.
Could the British have guessed this? Is that why the Beothuk became exinct in British times? Did the British deliberately kill them with diseases and starvation (the British overtook the coasts and left the Beothuk with little access to the rich fishing)? So the British in their turn wouldn’t be wiped out by the Beothuk?
Or did the British wipe out the Beothuk in revenge for the wiping out of the Vikings in North America?Was there some secret cabal of white power, even back then?
And wouldn’t the Beothuk be more likely to call this island, Oldfoundland? Who knows how many thousands of years earlier it was for the Beothuk and their ancestors to find it.
Ahh, Newfoundland. Your statement of a name just leads to so many questions and possibilities about it.
#archaeoligists #beothuk #british #cabot #columbus #disease #europeans #lanse-aux-meadows #newfoundland #oldfoundland #portugal #secret-cabal-of-white-power #spain #starvation #the-americas #viking #viking-sagas #vinland
https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/06/17/whats-in-the-name-newfoundland/
