Jan 23, 2022
In which we look at how the now-extinct Beothuk population helped the creation of a distinct Newfoundland identity that actively rejected Canada. Other topics include painting, poetry, and the attempted entry of Newfoundland into Confederation in 1869.
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Sources/Further Reading:
- Fowke, Edith. "The Anti-Confederation Song". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 11 August 2014, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quotthe-anti-confederation-songquot-emc
- Goldie, Terry. Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989.
- ‘Mary March’ portrait of Demasduit by Lady Hamilton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit#/media/File:Demasduit.jpg
- Hiller, James. “Confederation Defeated: The Newfoundland Election Of 1869.” Newfoundland In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries: Essays In Interpretation, Edited By James Hiller And Peter Neary, University Of Toronto Press, 1980, pp. 67–94, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1vxmcpn.7.
- Leggo, Carl. “Who Speaks For Extinct Nations? The Beothuk and Narrative Voice”, Literator 16 (1), April 1995, pp. 31-49. https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/582/752
- Lowell, Robert Trail Spence. The Poems of Robert Lowell, Boston, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1864. https://ia800208.us.archive.org/3/items/poemsofrobertlow00lowe/poemsofrobertlow00lowe.pdf
- Owen, Suzanne. “The Demise of the Beothuk as a Past Still Present”, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 2015, pp. 119-139. https://www.academia.edu/12175598/The_Demise_of_the_Beothuk_as_a_Past_Still_Present
- P. P. “The Boeothicks,” Newfoundland Patriot, page 1, April 19, 1836. https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/the_patriot/id/9569/rec/15
- Santu Toney Beothuk Song, 1910, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvwmEguJp8Y