Métis people

The first reason why I think Louis Riel is a freedom fighter is because he fighted for Native rights. Around pages 131-140 Riel helps the Métis win land for their people by starting a petition against the Canadian government to let them have more land. John MacDonald agrees with a permit for more land but only for half-breeds living in the north-west and for only a small part of land. This makes the half-breeds angry. So Riel starts a rebellion and a new government called, “the Exovedate”, with the half-breeds. This is a great example of how Riel was dedicated to his people and lead them. Louis Riel started a whole nation and had the power to start a province. Page 74-77, Riel sends Father Ritchot to Ottawa to negotiate so that the province “Manitoba” can become an official Canadian province. He meets a man named John MacDonald and after a few weeks of discussion, he negotiates with him. On June 17, 1870, Father Ritchot arrives in the red river settlement and tells Riel Manitoba is now official. He also informs Riel by saying he that in the future 1,400,000 acres will be reserved for the Métis. This shows that Louis Riel cares about the Métis and he wanted to provide land for them. He took action and made the province Manitoba a reality.…

Louis Riel is a hero to the Métis, but a traitor to the Canadian government. He is the most controversial person in history and many debate whether he was good or bad. Through his life, he had made some good accomplishments, but it had costed him to make some bad mistakes. Although he wasn’t perfect, he helped find the identity for the Métis people and had fought for what he thought was the right thing to do. Louis Riel may have went up against the First Nations, but he only did it because he…

Nations. This all happened because of the Métis population and the Hudson's Bay Company. Métis are ancient people of mixed Indigenous and Europeans. In the beginning of 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company started to control the territory of Rupert's Land, which is called Manitoba today. The company wants to invade the Rupert's land. They forced the Métis people to leave their place because they wanted the land and used it as their fur trading post. Back then Winnipeg was known as the Red River…

banks of the Red and Seine rivers in eastern Winnipeg, is home to the Metis fur traders. Founded in 1818 by Bishop Provencher. It is home to one of the largest Francophone communities and is also the birth place of Louis Riel the political leader of the Metis and the founder of Manitoba. The Grey Nuns were very influential to the early development of the city. The Metis people wanted recognition from the Canadian Government which led to the Red River Rebellion; the first crisis the new…

Then, farmers started to move in and take hunting ground land from the metis and turned it into cropland. After, Louis Riel stepped in to the picture and told them that this was unlawful. Louis Riel was a political leader of the metis people of the Canadian prairies, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a Canadian politician. He was born on October 22, 1844 in Red River Colony and died on November 16, 1885 in Regina. His wife’s name was Marguerite Monet. He had two children. He was very…

The Devil and Mr. Casement, a book by Jordan Goodman, examines the push to expose horrifying conditions of the indigenous people working on the rubber plantation in Peru during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Roger Casement, in which the author considers closely, is an Irish man who campaigns to find justice for the oppressed people. He is chosen by the Foreign Office to the Amazonian Peru to investigate atrocities against Indian workers. He became an obvious selection…

Louis Riel - Hero vs Criminal We believe Louis Riel was a hero because he stood up for the Métis community and he was one of the first Métis advocates, he wanted the Métis people to be heard and he wouldn't let the Canadian Government steal the land they have settled on. Riel and his patrols prevented the Governor at the time William McDougall from proceeding into the Metis territory not long after the Governor sent surveyors out to plot the land. Then, McDougall declared that Hudson’s Bay…

amongst his people he led a resistance against the Canadian Government and it resulted in a death penalty, through his acts it is shown he did not do it just for himself but for his people. The traits of a martyr is one who puts themself in a dangerous position for the sake of the people who they lead, mostly against an oppressing casualty amongst a wide range of people. Louis Riel, was an ambitious leader that came from a respected family, Louis Riel had gone to Montreal for a classical…

Yet it also talks about how it can’t be taken away at the same time. Quebec is already unique as it is for the french they speak is different and more of a variant to that of the French spoken in France. As well it makes the comparison of how to most people that speak French value it just as much as breathing itself. One could also discover that within the source if they were in at anyways deny the right to speak or even use the French language altogether there would be outbreaks of protests and…

for Métis culture and rights through existing legislation. Historically, the Canadian government, or Dominion of Canada, has tried to protect Métis land through legislation. Furthermore, Métis inherent rights to land, hunting, fishing and autonomy have been met with current and improved legislation. The Métis are now recognized as aboriginal peoples and share the same rights as them through Section 35 of the Constitution. These pieces of legislation make it possible for the Métis culture and…