The Life

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When people hear the name Louis Riel, some fill up with anger, others fill up with a thankful sense of happiness, like me and my grandfather for example. Louis was Metis, this was the product of a Voyageur and Indian women having a child. The Metis were famed for their hunting and tracking abilities and were often employed individuals or groups as guides or interpreters. Their farming tradition had its roots in the Red River settlement of Manitoba. Following the massive exodus into Sasketchewan, the Metis again established farms and homesteads. The difficulties encountered by the Metis in gaining clear entitlement to their land and the intervention of land speculators when scrip was issued caused most Metis to lose possession of their farms. "York" boats played a major role in the fur trade industry as they replaced freight canoes on the main water systems of Canada in the late 19th century. They had a larger carrying capacity and required fewer men to operate them. This enabl!

ed furs to be transported faster and more economically than by canoe. It took eighteen men to run the York boats: a helmsman to give the orders for rowing, a man to steer and sixteen men to pull the oars. Sails were often used to catch favourable winds. Th

changed into square blocks. Louis Riel had ordered them to stop, he was very upset about this. Very mad and defensive the Metis took over Fort Gary and usedas a headquarters. The Canadians who were there an didn't want tower imprisoned. Louis formed a provisional government to the colonies entrance into Confederation, he knew that the thoughts and ideas would be bypassed. A list of rights were made the government and sent to Ottawa. The prisoners would be let free if interfered with the provisional government. One of the prisoners planed an attack however, Thomas Scott was then recaptured and.received the list of rights and had passed the Manitoba Act May 23, 1870. Manitoba was entered as the fifth province on July, 1870. In 1884 he was asked by a Mr. Gabriel Dumont to come because the Indians were starving and the Metis landsrights were being messed with. He agreed and went back to his rebels to them fight the government with the help of the Indian Chiefs Big Bear and Poundma!

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e inland sailors who manned these boats were predominently the Metis men who worked for the fur companies. The The Voyageurs wanted to remain friends with these they married the Indian women. He was a man who stuck up for the rights of his people, such as my grandfather. In this essay I will tell you how Louis Riel contri

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