Info About The Beothuk Indians

1. They paint their faces, bodies, and hair red with insect repellant. Also, they considered red as the sacred color and wore it al yearlong.

2. They are located in the island of Newfoundland.

3. They live in a house called a mamateek. It is mad out of birch bark and looks like a teepee. There was rectangular Beothuk Indian houses that were for storing and drying foods like meat from buffalo.

4. The girls wore skirts, poncho-like cloaks made out of animal skins, peaked caps, wraparound mantles, and a hood for the babies. The boys wore breechclout shorts, poncho-like cloaks made out of animal skins, and peaked caps.

5. They traveled in humpbacked canoes over water, and snowshoes for winter.

6. They used spears for hunting caribou and seals. They also gathered eggs and plants for foods too.

7. They used spears, harpoons, bow and arrows, and stone knives for hunting. Most of them were made from stone, wood, and bones from animals.

8. The Beothuk Indians spoke Beothuk isolate language. The unique language relates to the Algonquin dialect spoken by the Naskapi and Montagnais people in Quebec and Labrador.

9. There are many different kinds of Beothuk cultures. They’re Burial Practices, their use of Red Ochre, and their Beliefs.