The first European fishermen called the Beothuk "The Red Indians," because they painted masks of ochre on their faces. But beyond rare glimpses through the forest, the two groups had little ...

The Beothuk were worried that Buchan was going ... nine months after moving to St. John's to become the living emblem of a vanished culture, Shawnadithit died of tuberculosis.

A Qalipu man is renewing calls to have the name of a mountain in central Newfoundland changed, arguing it's named after a settler infamous for ordering the deaths of several dozen Beothuk — and ...