Magnificent, courageous, passionate, diligent, gallant, heroic are all words that define Louis Riel, and his outstanding actions that have made a very positive impact to Canada's history and the proud Métis nation! Louis Riel was a very important person that accomplished so many groundbreaking achievements in a peaceful, respectful way. There are many reasons that prove evidently that Louis Riel was a hero, some of his achievements included him and the Métis becoming the foundation to the Canadian economy by their work in fur trade, and their invention of the very successful North West Company (N.W.C). Also, Riel and the Métis were protecting a unique and distinguished culture that had been established in the Red River area for over 100 years.
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There is one word that describes this question to perfection which is peacefully with no intention to harm or hurt anybody in a violent way. One of the reasons that prove how he acted peacefully is when the provisional government and Louis Riel Drew up a Bill of Rights to present to the government of Canada to request specific complains and recommendation of the Métis. A few of the rights included the right to elect a legislature, Métis would keep land rights, and federal government would negotiate treaties with the first nation living there. The federal government did not follow through with the rights proposed in the bill such as to negotiate treaties with the first nation living in the Métis land, in fact caused more trouble. S.J.A.M wanted to find a solution to solve these problems, so he created the Manitoba Act. Now some may argue that S.J.A.M created a whole new province and tried to please everybody and the Métis, so what do you have to complain about? Well the truth is that an area of land (560 000 hectares) would be set aside for the Métis to use but what happened was that this promise was not fulfilled. Therefore each family did not receive about 240 acres (97 hectares) which was promised to them. This was beyond outrageous. This proved that the system worked horribly. Later on S.J.A.M sent 1200 soldiers to keep the peace in the new province. Instead the Ontario volunteers thought their job was to punish the Métis and capture Louis Riel. “I should like to hang him from the highest tree,” said the commander of the troops. The soldiers had such violent and harmful thoughts unlike the Métis who tried to solve everything with peace. The evidence speaks for itself and proves that the Métis always answered with peace while the government was the one who caused chaos and had bad
There is one word that describes this question to perfection which is peacefully with no intention to harm or hurt anybody in a violent way. One of the reasons that prove how he acted peacefully is when the provisional government and Louis Riel Drew up a Bill of Rights to present to the government of Canada to request specific complains and recommendation of the Métis. A few of the rights included the right to elect a legislature, Métis would keep land rights, and federal government would negotiate treaties with the first nation living there. The federal government did not follow through with the rights proposed in the bill such as to negotiate treaties with the first nation living in the Métis land, in fact caused more trouble. S.J.A.M wanted to find a solution to solve these problems, so he created the Manitoba Act. Now some may argue that S.J.A.M created a whole new province and tried to please everybody and the Métis, so what do you have to complain about? Well the truth is that an area of land (560 000 hectares) would be set aside for the Métis to use but what happened was that this promise was not fulfilled. Therefore each family did not receive about 240 acres (97 hectares) which was promised to them. This was beyond outrageous. This proved that the system worked horribly. Later on S.J.A.M sent 1200 soldiers to keep the peace in the new province. Instead the Ontario volunteers thought their job was to punish the Métis and capture Louis Riel. “I should like to hang him from the highest tree,” said the commander of the troops. The soldiers had such violent and harmful thoughts unlike the Métis who tried to solve everything with peace. The evidence speaks for itself and proves that the Métis always answered with peace while the government was the one who caused chaos and had bad