Bøker av Terry Foss

This, the third book in the Red Indian series, follows the lives and struggles of the ancestors of Shanadee and Kirradittii who the readers first met in Book 1 (The Early Years).

In 1788, Shanadee, a young Beothuk girl has her first violent encounter with the White Man. In the coming days and years it will happen again and again as her family desperately struggles to survive in the harsh Newfoundland environment, while suffering the relentless harassment of the white settlers.We join them as they unwittingly make their journey into extinction.

Following a failed attempt in 1500, Gaspar Corte-Real along with his brother Miguel, set out in spring of 1501 on a second exploratory voyage under commission from King Manuel of Portugal. The mission was to find a Northwest Passage to Asia. Of the three carvels that sailed only two returned to Portugal, carrying 57 slaves captured on the coast of Newfoundland. Gaspar and his crew were never heard off again. Beothuk Slaves tells the story of what may have taken place when Gaspar landed on the island of Newfoundland, on that ill-fated voyage.