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  Riel, Louis
Riel, Louis, Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885).
Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the priesthood at the Collège de Montréal.
Smith persuaded Riel to summon a general meeting, at which it was decided to hold a convention of 40 representatives of the settlement, equally divided between English and French speakers.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006837   (1539 words)

  
  Louis Riel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riel was forced into exile in the United States as a result of the controversial execution of Thomas Scott during the rebellion.
Riel was viewed sympathetically in francophone regions of Canada, and his execution had a lasting influence on relations between the province of Quebec and English-speaking Canada.
Riel was easily swayed to support their cause — which was perhaps unsurprising in view of Riel's continuing conviction that he was the divinely selected leader of the Métis and the prophet of a new form of Christianity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Riel   (5923 words)

  
 Louis Riel
Louis Riel is a hero because he fought for his people the Métis and their land.
Riel became a father of Manitoba and the President of the Métis.
This is the coffin that transported Louis Riel from Regina to Winnipeg.
www.wsd1.org /SargentPark/hero/riel.html   (207 words)

  
 Louis Riel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
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.
Riel was the undisputed spiritual and political head of the short-lived 1885 Rebellion.
Riel was increasingly influenced by his belief that he was chosen to lead the Métis people.
library.usask.ca /northwest/background/riel.htm   (448 words)

  
 Louis Riel
Riel went to Ottawa but was not allowed to sit as a member in the House, for he was threatened by many to be shot if he appeared in the House.
Riel was a prisoner of the Canadian government and was brought to trial for his part in the rebellion.
Riel’s arguments were not listened to and he died an innocent man. Not guilty of killing many people, treason, forming a provisional government, and standing up for the right of the natives.
www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Louis_Riel.html   (556 words)

  
 Louis Riel
Louis Riel was born October 22, 1844 on a farmstead at the juncture of the Red and Seine rivers, present day Winnipeg.
Riel was smuggled by friends across the border and on March 6, 1876, he was committed to an asylum in Quebec.
And the government of Canada saw Riel as a trouble maker, a zealot and a traitor.
www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Canada/riel.htm   (1120 words)

  
 Louis Riel - Northwest Resistence
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.
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.
Riel was the undisputed spiritual and political head of the short-lived 1885 Rebellion.
www.danielnpaul.com /LouisRiel.html   (3668 words)

  
 Louis Riel, Leader of the Metis Nation and Founding Father of Manitoba
The eldest of eleven children, Riel was born on October 22, 1844 in a log cabin (built by his father) by a gristmill in St. Boniface.
The Bishop was delighted with Riel and at the age of fourteen (1858), he was sent off to Montreal (along with two other boys, Daniel McDougall and Louis Schmidt) to study in a seminary in preparation for the priesthood.
Riel was a controversial figure and his life and death have long been a cause of division between French and English Canadians.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/Atrium/4832/riel.html   (1703 words)

  
 Drummerworld: Alex Riel
Alex Riel was born September 1940 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has since the sixties remained firmly established as one of the most significant and influential jazz drummers in Europe.
This year Riel also was chosen as the "Danish Jazz Musician of the Year".
In 1966 Riel was touring in Europe as a member of the Bill Evans Trio.
www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Alex_Riel.html   (252 words)

  
 Redeeming Riel
Riel's second speech to the court was entirely secular — in fact, quite striking in its near-total absence of religious references.
Judging from the structure of the passage, in which Riel identifies several nationalities to be invited to settle in the West, Riel said "Ireland" intending to specify it as one of seven countries he foresaw sharing land in the Canadian West.
Perhaps this ultimate exoneration of Riel is the result of years of tiny revisions of documents, subtle in themselves, yet persuasive in their overall effect; nevertheless, Louis Riel is being reshaped once again to reflect contemporary social concerns of Canadians.
www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol31/drew.htm   (3578 words)

  
 Place Louis Riel
Louis Riel, leader of the Metis Nation and the people of the Northwest, was born October 20th, 1844 in the parish of St. Vital, Red River Settlement.
In 1869, at age 25, Louis Riel was elected Secretary of the Metis National Committee in the Red River Settlement.
Riel taught school and lived there with his family until they returned to Batoche in 1885 where he would once again lead the people of the Northwest in their defense against the Canadian military.
www.placelouisriel.com /louis.htm   (264 words)

  
 Confederation for Kids: Louis Riel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Riel was born at the Red River Colony in what is now Manitoba on October 22, 1844.
While some people felt that Riel was a hero for all the work that he did for the Métis, others felt that he was a traitor to Canada.
Riel was charged with treason, and hanged on November 16, 1885 by order of the Government of Canada.
www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/kids/h2-1620-e.html   (335 words)

  
 Louis Riel by George Siamandas
Riel House in St. Vital was the recognized Riel house according to Parks Canada, but recently a man called Maurice Prince maintains he was actually born near the junction of the Seine and Red River at Whittier Park which was the old Lagimodiere homestead.
Riel Sr led the French Metis community in the 1850s and established the pattern of leadership his son would continue.
Riel worked as a school teacher and trapper in Montana but was persuaded to go to Batoche to help with the North West rebellion, a replay of what had happened in Red River 14 years earlier.
www.siamandas.com /time_machine/PAGES/people_stories/LOUIS_RIEL.htm   (712 words)

  
 riel
Tired of dealing with the Riel issue and anxious to put the 1869-70 problems behind them, legislators voted in 1875 to grant amnesty for participants in the Red River uprising--but in Riel's case the amnesty was conditioned on his agreeing to a five-year banishment from Canada.
Riel plead "not guilty" to "wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously" making "war against our lady the Queen" and "maliciously and traitorously" attempting to "by force and arms subvert and destroy the constitution and government of this realm." Treason charges rested on the three battles with government forces: Duck Lake, Fish Creek, and Batoche.
Riel, who had been sitting passively through testimony by the previous prosecution witnesses, became agitated during Nolin's examination and leaped to his feet, asking that he be given the opportunity to put questions directly to Nolin.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/rielaccount.html   (3114 words)

  
 Brief Introduction of RIEL
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www.riel.whu.edu.cn /show.asp?ID=777   (481 words)

  
 Louis Riel - Canadian Confederation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Viewed by some as a saviour, and by some as a traitor, Riel nevertheless became the voice of the Métis people during a turbulent time in Canadian history, and was largely responsible for the entrance of the province of Manitoba into Confederation.
At that time, Riel was noticed by Bishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché who wanted him to become a priest, but, following the death of his father, Riel abandoned that idea and in 1865, he became a law-office clerk in order to provide for his family.
When Ritchot returned to the settlement to report on the negotiations with Ottawa, he met Riel who seemed very satisfied with the results and who henceforth believed he was protected by an indemnity promised to the participants in the "rebellion." The provisional government ratified the agreement leading to the Manitoba Act on June 24, 1870.
www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2390-e.html   (1171 words)

  
 Redeeming Riel
Riel's second speech to the court was entirely secular — in fact, quite striking in its near-total absence of religious references.
Judging from the structure of the passage, in which Riel identifies several nationalities to be invited to settle in the West, Riel said "Ireland" intending to specify it as one of seven countries he foresaw sharing land in the Canadian West.
Perhaps this ultimate exoneration of Riel is the result of years of tiny revisions of documents, subtle in themselves, yet persuasive in their overall effect; nevertheless, Louis Riel is being reshaped once again to reflect contemporary social concerns of Canadians.
www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol31/drew.htm   (3578 words)

  
 DESMOND MORTON 'Fantasy vs. Riel-ity' - 26 Jan1998 - david nicholson
Riel is dead, hanged in Regina on Nov. 15, 1885, for "levying war upon Her Majesty," contrary to a medieval Statute of Treasons, which had the force of law in Canada at the time.
The campaign for Riel's exoneration and promotion to the company of the fathers of confederation continues, currently under the dubious auspices of the Bloc Quebecois, but with plenty of allies.
Riel the symbol, after all, is heritage, to be exploited for collective self-esteem, victim status and the indoctrination of the young.
www.wednesday-night.com /desmorton3.htm   (944 words)

  
 Winnipeg 411 - History & Facts - Louis Riel and the Province of Manitoba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Riel sent a notice to the residents of the settlement, calling for twelve English-speaking and twelve French-speaking representatives to be a part of his council.
When Riel learned that Smith was an agent of the Dominion, he demanded to find out if the HBC official had the power to negotiate.
Riel soon stepped forward and proposed that 20 French and 20 English representatives should meet to discuss their course of action.
winnipeg411.com /history/indepth/riel   (1955 words)

  
 Louis Riel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Louis Riel was born in St.Boniface(Winnipeg) on October 22, 1844.
Although the government put up a reward for Riel's head, the people of Manitoba regarded him as a hero, so much that he was elected to the Parliament of Canada, in 1873 and 1874, as their representative.
French Canada was sympathetic with Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald was swarmed with petitions begging that Riel not be hung.
www.plpsd.mb.ca /amhs/history/riel.html   (627 words)

  
 Louis Riel Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Louis Riel (1844-1885) was a Canadian rebel who led uprisings in the west in 1870 and 1884-1885 on behalf of the Métis people.
Louis Riel was born at Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, on Oct. 23, 1844, of Métis parents.
Riel was approached by representatives of the Métis and other dissident groups in 1884 and asked to return to Canada.
www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-riel   (490 words)

  
 Rebellion on the Red - Rethinking Riel - CBC Archives
Riel's government must also deal with a violent and vocal group of anti-Catholic, anti-French settlers led by a group called the Canadian Party.
Riel has attained many of his goals for the new province and its people, but he has not won amnesty for his part in the rebellion.
• Louis Riel was born in the Red River settlement on Oct. 22, 1844, to Jean-Louis Riel and Julie Lagimodière.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1482-9957/politics_economy/louis_riel/clip1   (785 words)

  
 drawn and quarterly
To some Louis Riel was one of the founding fathers of a new nation but to others he is a murderer who nearly tore a country apart.
Riel, the absolute rebel, took on the army, the government, the Queen of England, and even the Church in the name of his passionate vision of freedom for the people of the prairies.
Riel's hopes of forming a provisional government in a peaceful manner are dashed as outrage grows amongst the English settlers over the killing of Scott.
www.drawnandquarterly.com /shopCatalogLong.php?st=art&art=a3dff7dd51fc01   (2044 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Riel, Louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Riel was born in the Red River Settlement (at that time under the governance of the Hudson's Bay Company), and went to Montreal to study for the priesthood but turned to law instead.
The repercussions from the hanging of Riel for high treason on November 16, 1885, are still being felt.
Thomas Flanagan, ed., The Diaries of Louis Riel (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1976); A. Lussier, ed., Louis Riel and the Métis (Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications, 1988); George F. Stanley, Louis Riel (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1963).
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_033400_riellouis.htm   (1208 words)

  
 Louis Riel
Riel was born in the Red River Colony of what is now Manitoba, the son of a prominent Métis leader and a French Canadian mother.
It was during these confusing years that Riel's religious feelings, which had always been strong, grew to a steadfast conviction that he was sent by God as the prophet of a new North American Catholicism.
In 1884, Riel was teaching school in Montana when some Métis from Saskatchewan asked for his help in their difficulties with the Canadian government.
www.histori.ca /minutes/minute.do?id=10646   (512 words)

  
 Really "Riel" History | TIME
His latest project, "Louis Riel," (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject.
Riel belonged to the community known as the Métis, a mixture of Native Americans and French settlers who lived along the Red River just north of Minnesota.
Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit.
www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,455465,00.html   (1096 words)

  
 riel - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
The new riel consists of 100 sen. As at early 2006, 4,197 riels equalled US$1.
Riel, Louis David (1844-1885), Canadian insurgent, born in Manitoba, of French, Irish, and Native American stock.
The Confederation of Canada in 1867 led the Metis to fear again that their way of life was under threat.
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 Who is Louis Riel?
In 1868, at the age of 24, Riel would become a leader of the Metis of his birthplace and in the next two years would go on to head a provisional government.
Riel himself escaped by scaling the north wall of Fort Garry and fled to the United States.
Riel surrendered two weeks later and was formally charged with high treason five weeks after that.
coco.essortment.com /louisriel_rjrv.htm   (586 words)

  
 Riel Print Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Riel, M., Schwarz, J. and Hitt, A. School Change with Technology: Crossing the Digital Divide.
Riel, M., (2000) Education in the 21st Century: Just-in-Time Learning or Learning Communities in Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (Ed) Education and the Arab World: Challenges of the next millennium.
Riel, M., (1998) Teaching and learning in the educational communities of the future.
gsep.pepperdine.edu /~mriel/office/menu/pubs.html   (1102 words)

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