The Life of Louis Riel
As a prominent Métis leader and a founder of Manitoba, Louis Riel is a principal example of someone who upheld Aboriginal values and traditions. Riel was born on October 22, 1844, in Saint-Boniface, Red River Settlement, as the son of a Métis father, and a French-Canadian mother. Riel studied as a lawyer in Montréal, but he returned to the Red River Settlement at the age of 24, just as Canada planned to take over Rupert’s Land from the Hudson's Bay Company. The Métis people…
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