In March 1819, a Beothuk
woman named Demasduit was kidnapped and taken from her tribe on frozen
Red Indian Lake in central Newfoundland. She watched as the white men
shot her husband, Chief Nonosabasut. They called her "Mary March," out
of deference to the date of her capture. Less than two years later, she
was dead. Within a decade, the entire tribe was extinct. IDEAS host
Paul
Kennedy examines what actually happened.