Help please... It's about History anbout Louis Riel Help!?

Question

Can you please help me and explain to what the Red River Rebellion is and what accomplishments did Riel do... And anything extra... Thanks have a test coming up.

Answer 1

Louis Riel, a leader of his people in their resistance against the Canadian government in the Canadian Northwest, is perhaps the most controversial figure in Canadian historiography. His life and deeds have spawned a massive and diverse literature.

He was born in the Red River Settlement (in what is now Manitoba) in 1844. A promising student, he was sent to Montreal to train for the priesthood, but he never graduated. An attempt at training as a lawyer ended similarly, and by 1868 Riel was back in the Red River area. Ambitious, well educated and bilingual, Riel quickly emerged as a leader among the Métis of the Red River. In 1869-1870 he headed a provisional government, which would eventually negotiate the Manitoba Act with the Canadian government. The Act established Manitoba as a province and provided some protection for French language rights.

Riel's leadership in the agitation, especially his decision to execute a Canadian named Thomas Scott, enraged anti-Catholic and anti-French sentiment in Ontario. Although chosen for a seat in the House of Commons on three occasions, he was unable to take his seat in the house. In 1875, Riel's role in the death of Scott resulted in his exile from Canada. These years in exile would include stays in two Quebec asylums and the growing belief in Riel that he had a religious mission to lead the Métis people of the Canadian northwest.

In 1884, while teaching in Montana at a Jesuit mission, Riel was asked by a delegation from the community of Métis from the south branch of the Saskatchewan river to present their grievances to the Canadian government. Despite Riel's assistance, the federal government ignored Métis concerns. By March of 1885, Métis patience was exhausted and a provisional government was declared.

Riel was the undisputed spiritual and political head of the short-lived 1885 Rebellion. He never carried arms and hindered the work of his military head, Gabriel Dumont. Riel was increasingly influenced by his belief that he was chosen to lead the Métis people. On May 15, shortly after the fall of Batoche, Riel surrendered to Canadian forces and was taken to Regina to stand trial for treason.

At his trial, Riel gave two long speeches which demonstrated his powerful rhetorical abilities. He personally rejected attempts by his defence counsel to prove he was not guilty by reason of insanity. On 1 August 1885, a jury of six English-speaking Protestants found Riel guilty but recommended mercy. Judge Hugh Richardson sentenced him to death. Attempted appeals were dismissed and a special re-examination of Riel's mental state by government appointed doctors found him sane. He was hanged in Regina on 16 November, 1885. His execution was widely opposed in Quebec and had lasting political ramifications

Answer 2

You could find that stuff on Wikipedia, if you just want a quick overview of what he did. Anyways, there were two North-West rebellions involving Riel: the first resulted in the founding of the province of Manitoba, the second resulted in Riel's execution (1885).

He is called the Father of Manitoba, and is also seen as a symbol of Native Canadian resistance by many Aboriginal peoples and the Metis. At the same time, many historians have viewed him as a nutcase because of his tendency for extreme (and unjustified) actions. In the last rebellion, he felt that the Metis were the "Chosen People" of God, and that he was a prophet leading them to their chosen land (the prairies).

Answer 3

Riel was Metis. Metis were regarded as natives by the government. Metis were regarded as white by the natives.
The result was they had no rights and were hated by both sides. Riel tried to make them into their own nation.
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(1844-1885)
In 1869, Riel founded the Comité National des Métis to protect his people’s rights, and helped stage the Red River Uprising for which he was exiled to the United States. Entreatied by settlers, he eventually returned to set up a provisional government and, as the self-declared prophet of his people, became embroiled in the 1885 rebellion. When the Canadian government finally responded with military force, the rebellion was quickly crushed and Riel surrendered. His subsequent trial and execution aroused bitterness and debate. Alternately described as visionary and madman, victim and villain, he remained a controversial figure in death as in life. With the perspective of time, Louis Riel has come to be seen as a combination of martyr and hero in the eyes of many Canadians.


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Answer 4

b. Oct. 23, 1844, St. Boniface, Assiniboia
d. Nov. 16, 1885, Regina, District of Assiniboia, Can.
Canadian leader of the Métis (persons of both European, especially French, and Indian descent) in western Canada.

Riel studied law in Montreal and worked at various jobs, including a brief period as a clerk in St. Paul, Minn. In 1869 arrangements to transfer to the Dominion the territorial rights of the Hudson's Bay Company in western Canada and the expected influx of English-speaking settlers alarmed the Métis population. Riel assumed leadership and his followers managed to halt the Canadian surveyors and prevent the governor-designate, William McDougall, from entering Red River. They then seized Ft. Garry (now Winnipeg), the headquarters of the company, and established a provisional government with Riel as president to negotiate acceptable terms of union with Canada.

In May 1870 the Canadian Parliament passed the Manitoba Act, establishing the province of Manitoba and promising amnesty to the insurgents. Riel's government, meanwhile, court-martialled and executed an English-speaking Canadian, thus arousing all English-speaking Canada. The promised amnesty was thereupon refused, and military forces were sent out against Riel and his followers. When Ft. Garry was recaptured in August 1870, the insurrection ended and Riel fled. A year later he urged his followers to join with other Canadians in repulsing a threatened attack by American Fenians (Irish revolutionaries), for which he received public thanks. In 1873 he became a member of the Dominion Parliament for Provencher; he took the oath in Ottawa but did not sit. The following year he was expelled from the House but was quickly reelected for Provencher. In February 1875 Riel was officially outlawed for five years. He spent a year as a mental patient (1877-78), and in 1879-84 he lived in Montana, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1883; there he endeavoured to organize the American Métis on behalf of the Republican Party.

In 1884 the Métis of Saskatchewan appealed to Riel to represent their land claims to the Canadian government. At first proceeding legally, he later established a provisional government (March 1885). A rising followed, but it was crushed by the Canadians, and Riel surrendered. He was found guilty of treason and hanged. His death led to fierce outbreaks of racialism in Quebec and Ontario and marked the beginning of the nationalist movement.

Answer 5

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