Cargando…
Tracing Ochre : Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk
"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...
| Otros Autores: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2018.
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Page i; Copyright; 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 DNA5 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 Newfoundland13 Unrecognized Peoples and Concepts of Extinction; 14 Shanawdithit and Truganini: Converging and Diverging Histories; Coda: The Recovery of Indigenous Identity; Contributors; Index