ANT241Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Red Indian Lake, Birch Bark, Maritime Archaic
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Died out or left newfoundland over 3000 years ago. The beaches people became the little passage people. Once a year during a ritual, paint each other red. Term spread in na so all indians called red indians. Are kinship groups that require you to marry outside. Still a place in newfoundland called red indian lake". Foragers / hunger gatherers mode of subsistence. Lived in small groups -> bands of 30-35 people. Most important resources were caribou, seal and salmon. To hunt caribou knew where a migrate herd would come. Mamateeks what the beothuk lived in cone-shaped house house shaped. Bone pendants don"t know what they were used for. Cave burial in a cave on an island off shore. Did not participate in fur trade had very little relationship with europeans. Little contact with europeans any contact they did have was predominantly violent. Did acquire european goods such as copper kettles, iron nails and snails.
