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Louis Riel (/ ˈ l uː i r i ˈ ɛ l /; French: [lwi ʁjɛl]; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people.
Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State is a 2008 book by Canadian historian Jennifer Reid.Focusing on the Métis leader Louis Riel, it explores his legacy as a national hero and the broader concepts of Canadian identity and the Canadian state, as well as how the former is intrinsically connected with the latter.
The Trial of Louis Riel is a play written by John Coulter in 1967 as a Canadian Centennial project. Commissioned by the Regina Chamber of Commerce and based on the trial transcripts, it has been played annually ever since in Regina in the summer, most recently in 2021, the 55th annual production and thus North America's longest-running ...
Louis Riel Sr. was an active participant in the Red River Métis community. Riel emerged as a Métis leader in the defence of Guillaume Sayer in his trial in May 1849. This trial was a defining moment in the fall of the Hudson's Bay Company 's monopoly of the fur trade at Red River.
The North-West Rebellion (French: Rébellion du Nord-Ouest), was an armed rebellion of Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising of Cree and Assiniboine mostly in the District of Saskatchewan, North-West Territories, against the Canadian government.
Riel House is a National Historic Site commemorating the life of the Métis politician and activist Louis Riel, and also the daily life of Métis families in the Red River Settlement. The house is situated in the historic St. Vital parish of Winnipeg , in Manitoba, Canada.
The Red River Rebellion (French: Rébellion de la rivière Rouge), also known as the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion, was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in the early stages of establishing today's Canadian province of Manitoba.
About 50 families had claimed the river lots in the area by 1884. Widespread anxiety regarding land claims and a changing economy provoked a resistance against the Canadian Government. Here, 300 Métis and Indians led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont fought a force of 800 men commanded by Major-General Middleton between May 9 and 12, 1885.