Beothuk and Micmac . y, Montag-nais hunters from Labrador, following thesame easterly trend, have become thor-oughly incorporated with the Micmac, sothat, while the language in Newfoundlandhas remained Micmac, many ethnologicaland some physical characteristics, no doubt,such as they appear to observation, arelargely Montagnais. In addition we haveto recognize the possibility that some fea-tures of culture may have been absorbed fromthe Beothuk at various times, especiallyduring the period when they and the Mic-mac occupied a village in common at StGeorges bay. In studying the history of these
Beothuk and Micmac . y, Montag-nais hunters from Labrador, following thesame easterly trend, have become thor-oughly incorporated with the Micmac, sothat, while the language in Newfoundlandhas remained Micmac, many ethnologicaland some physical characteristics, no doubt,such as they appear to observation, arelargely Montagnais. In addition we haveto recognize the possibility that some fea-tures of culture may have been absorbed fromthe Beothuk at various times, especiallyduring the period when they and the Mic-mac occupied a village in common at StGeorges bay. In studying the history of these Micmac-Montagnais, as we shall call them, in New-foundland, we have some opportunity ofobserving the growth and extension of theirfamily territories from their first foundationon the southwestern coasts. Assuming ingeneral that this could hardly have pre-ceded the arrival of the first white peoplein the seventeenth century, we can see,though only at a glance, through the period INDIAN NOTES SPECK—BEOTHUK AND MICMAC. INTERIOR OF WIGWAM OF CAPE BRETON MICMAC, SHOWINGSIZE AND PLACING OF POLES _
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