RIEL, LOUIS, Métis spokesman, Louis Riel was the leader of the Métis in western Canada who led his people in revolt against Canadian sovereignty and helped found the province of Manitoba.
In 1885, Louis Riel famously Métis resistance was defeated in the North-West Rebellion at Batoche in May Found guilty of high treason and hanged in Regina, Riel’s life ended November 16, Today, Louis Riel is widely regarded as the Father of Manitoba.
The man who during a In , Riel first went into exile at the home and trading post of Antoine Gingras at St. Joseph’s, on the Pembina River in North Dakota. During the Resistance of Métis , Gingras was a supporter of Louis Riel.
In 1885, Louis Riel was In these pages, you are invited to read a biography of Louis Riel, Father of Manitoba, who gave his life for his people: The Metis. Louis, the first child of Louis Riel (Sr.) and Julie Lagimodière, was born October 22, , in St. Boniface.
Louis Riel's defence speech Benjamin’s parents moved to Pembina from Red River in the late s. On August 6, , he signed Louis Riel’s petition to Major General Nelson Miles requesting land for the Montana Metis.
Louis Riel was hanged for being Louis Riel (born Oct. 23, , St. Boniface, Assiniboia [western Canada]—died Nov. 16, , Regina, District of Assiniboia, Northwest Territories, Can.) was a Canadian leader of the Métis in western Canada. Riel grew up in the Red River Settlement in present-day Manitoba.
Few topics in Canadian history This document is a brief biography of Louis Riel written by Darren R. Prefontaine and edited by Lawrence J. Barkwell. Earlier versions of this biography appear in "The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan" and in Lawrence J. Barkwell`s "Veterans and Families of the Northwest Resistance," published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute.
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Riel’s most recent guise, in what is informally known as ‘Riel Lit’, is Chester Brown’s sequential art narrative Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography. Although cartoon and comic (amongst other visual) depictions of Riel are not new, Brown’s is the longest and most fully realized artistic statement about the Métis leader.