The result was the establishment of the province of Manitoba, and later, another uprising led by Riel, the North West Rebellion of 1885.īrown maintains a focus on these two rebellions, recounting very little about Riel’s life before the Red River Rebellion and almost entirely ignoring Riel’s non-political years as an exile in Montana. MacDonald agreed to sell Rupert’s Land to the Hudson’s Bay Company, Louis Riel mobilized the Métis of the Red River settlement into rebelling against this attempt to control their territory.
When, in 1869, Prime Minister Sir John A. To boil things down a bit, though, Riel was a Métis living in the Red River Settlement, an area populated by both Métis and English-speaking people and constituting a part of Rupert’s Land.
A controversial figure who is revered by some and despised by others, Riel and the spectrum of political maneuvers that he negotiated are very difficult to portray even-handedly.
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