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	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.
		Louis was led to the gallows – the trap door snapped open – and Riel was dead.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Canada/riel.htm (1120 words)

	Story:The Trial of Louis Riel - Canadawiki
		Louis Riel would not listen to Gabriel Dumont's request to escape with him to the United Statesm and on May 15, 1885, he surrendered to North-West Mounted Police scouts, on the condition that his Métis colleagues were allowed to go free.
		Riel was jailed at the North West Mounted Police headquarters, shackled to a ball and chain in a 6½' x 4½' cell.
		Riel had protested the initial appointment of his lawyers, all of whom were French Catholic, not wanting his trial to be one of English against French.
	www.canadawiki.org /index.php/Story:The_Trial_of_Louis_Riel (1596 words)

	Métis Nation of Ontario - Culture - Riel
		Louis, the first child of Louis Riel and Julie Lagimodière, was born on October 22, 1844 in St. Boniface, Manitoba.
		In Montreal, Louis was admitted to the Collège de Montréal run by the Gentlemen of St. Sulpice, where he embarked upon an eight year classic course of studies, which included Latin, Greek, French, English, philosophy and the sciences.
		Louis proved himself to be an excellent student and was soon at the top of his class.
	www.metisnation.org /culture/Riel/home.html (795 words)

	Louis Riel - The Trial of Louis Riel
		Riel is considered the founding father of Manitoba.
		The Trial of Louis Riel portrays the political, judicial and legal misdeeds which resulted in the unmerciful and unjust execution of Louis Riel.
		The first edition of The Trial of Louis Riel is in numerous libraries across Canada including the Supreme Court of Canada.
	www.fabjob.com /riel.htm (832 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Shortly after Riel’s return to the west, it became known that Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald*, fearing the Minnesota annexationists, was again negotiating with the HBC for the transfer of Rupert’s Land, ignoring the population at Red River and the Council of Assiniboia.
		Riel travelled to the Canadian border, where he was visited by friends and members of his family; he learned that the Métis did not believe he had ever been insane, despite his sojourn in two Quebec asylums.
		Riel’s fate had become a national issue that threatened to divide the cabinet, indeed the country, and a vast amount of editorial commentary was produced on the subject.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39918 (13481 words)

	Louis Riel Trial
		Louis Riel was the leader of the North-West resistance.
		Louis Riel was born in the Red River Settlement, which later became the Province of Maintoba.
		He was taken to Regina for his trial, and (in real life,) he was found guilty and hanged for treason.
	www.geocities.com /louisrieltrial/intro.html (167 words)

	Louis Riel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
	library2.usask.ca /northwest/background/riel.htm (448 words)

	The Trial of Louis Riel: A Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Riel leaves St. Paul, Minnesota, where he had been living and returns to the Red River settlement to seek election as a member of Parliament.
		Riel is elected to the House of Commons, but goes into hiding in New York, faced with an outstanding $5,000 reward for his capture, offered by the Ontario provincial goverment..
		Riel surrenders to General Middleton and is transported to Regina.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/rielchronology.html (983 words)

	Louis Riel's Biography - The Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This trial was to have disastrous consequences for Riel and for Canada.
		Riel's lawer wanted to plead that Riel was insane and not responsible for his acts.
		Riel was so opposed to this strategy that his lawyers had the judge rule that he did not have permission to speak.
	www.shsb.mb.ca /Riel/eproces.htm (215 words)

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		On 6 July 1885 Louis Riel was brought to trial in Regina on the charge of high treason.
		Riel's lawyers knew he would find little sympathy for his cause and not only were the six jurors non-Métis, but they were English speaking protestants.
		Riel was hanged on 18 November 1885 in Regina and buried in St Boniface near Winnipeg, not far from the original Red River Settlement.
	www.cdli.ca /courses/hist1201/unit02/section04/lesson03/3-lesson-a.htm (355 words)

	Métis call for Riel's pardon - Rethinking Riel - CBC Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ninety-three years after Riel's death by a government hangman, CBC News reports on the 1978 effort to clear his name.
		They no longer asked for Riel's pardon, but instead had passed a resolution asking the federal government to recognize Riel as a Father of Confederation.
		Riel, to us, is a hero and a martyr," said MNC president Clement Chartier.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-74-1482-9899/people/louis_riel/clip7 (669 words)

	The Lesson in Riel 's Re-Trial : Thunderbay IMC
		Louis Riel - tried by a jury of six white male Protestants, convicted of treason and hanged in Regina on Nov. 16, 1885.
		In the case of Riel, the hour-long television retrial included lawyer Edward Greenspan as defense, lawyer Alan Lenczer as Crown prosecutor and former British Columbia Supreme Court justice Thomas Berger as the re-trial judge.
		Louis Riel waited 117 years to get his retrial and the six white male protestant jurors who convicted him are no longer around to answer for their actions.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /news/2002/10/1762_comment.php?theme=1 (1386 words)

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		The trial, conviction and execution of Louis Riel for high treason were unjust and unfair from a number of perspectives.
		Blake stated that the magistrate in the Riel trial was "the political law officer to the Government in the Territories" answerable to the Attorney-General.
		At the outset, the defence made an application for an adjournment of the trial for one month because they were "not in a position to proceed with the trial at the present moment." They had not obtained the presence of any witnesses and certain key documents.
	members.tripod.com /~Metis/lrtrial.html (2930 words)

	Louis Riel
		Louis Riel was the son of Louis Riel Sr and Julie Lagimodière, both intensely devout Roman Catholics.
		Riel was strongly advised to go into exile, and he left for the United States.
		The trial of Louis Riel split the country's francophones and anglophones.
	edimage.ca /edimage/grandspersonnages/en/carte_r03.html (604 words)

	KEY TERMS/PLACES/CONCEPTS/PEOPLE
		In your questioning of the witnesses you should bring out details of the extensive suffering, loss of life and damage to property caused by the rebellion, show that Riel had overall responsibility for the uprising, and convince the jury that he must be punished for his treasonable acts.
		The job of the lawyers for the defence (the defence counsel) is to show that Louis Riel) did not commit treasonable acts.
		Many people felt that Riel was insane at the time of the rebellion and hence not accountable for his acts.
	members.shaw.ca /rayandliz/rieltrial.htm (1903 words)

	Louis Riel Trial Statements - Canadawiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At a former stage of the trial you will remember that the prisoner wished to cross-examine the witnesses, we objected at the time, thinking that it was better for the interest of the prisoner that we should do so.
		It is this trial that is goir~g to show that I am going to be blessed by man during my existence, the benedictions are a guarantee that I was not wrong when by circumstances I was taken away from adopted land to my native land.
		Riel said that he had a noise in his bowels and that I told him that it meant something.
	www.canadawiki.org /index.php/Louis_Riel_Trial_Statements (4803 words)

	Louis Riel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the absence of an amnesty, and with the Canadian militia beating and intimidating his sympathisers, Riel fled to the safety of the St. Joseph's mission across the border in the Dakota Territory.
		The formerly widespread perception of Louis Riel as an insane traitor, especially outside of the Métis and French Canadian community, weakened considerably since the late 20th century.
		Louis Riel's conviction was officially revoked by the Parliament of Canada in 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Riel (6365 words)

	Métis leader blasts televised Louis Riel trial as an 'abomination' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The leadership of Canada's Métis National Council says CBC-TV's mock trial of Louis Riel is an "abomination" and a "gross violation and betrayal" of the public broadcaster's mandate.
		Riel was found guilty – by an all-white jury – and hanged for treason after leading the North-West Rebellions of 1885.
		Morin is asking the CBC to air a documentary that accurately portrays the history of Riel and the Métis and their role in securing Confederation.
	www.cbc.ca /news/story/2002/10/21/riel_cbc011021.html (1368 words)

	Métis Nation of Ontario - CBC Re-Trial of Louis Riel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Today three national and prestigious organizations have demonstrated that even a span of six generations, almost a dozen decades has been insufficient to free either Louis Riel or his people, the Métis of Canada, from the dread disease of prejudice.
		For purposes of reference we agree that her work on Riel is of unquestionable value, but Maggie Siggins is neither an historian nor a Métis.
		Riel re-trial producer responds to criticism on Talking Circle radio program.
	metisnation.org /news/cbcRIEL/index.html (624 words)

	Browse by Subject: Riel, Louis - Trial
		In the case of Louis Riel, convicted of treason and executed therefor / report of Sir Alexander Campbell.
		Riel and the Rebellion, 1885 reconsidered / Thomas Flanagan.
		The Queen vs. Louis Riel, accused and convicted of the crime of high treason : report of trial at Regina : appeal to the Court of Queen's bench, Manitoba : appeal to the Privy council, England : petition for medical examination of the convict : list of petitions for commutation of sentence, Ottawa.
	library.usask.ca /northwest/index/subject/151.html (236 words)

	CFS: Louis Riel Pt 3
		Riel reads Dumont the letter from Colonel Wolseley assuring Riel that he’s only coming to “afford equal protection to the lives and property of all races and of all creeds” (“” Dumont is a doubting Thomas after my own heart),
		As you noted, Riel had already written his Massinahican (a Cree word meaning “book” or “Bible” interchangeably—another enticing borderland!) proposing “a confederacy of Indian and mixed-blood peoples who would fight for a country of their own”.
		It seems to me that had Riel maintained the Red River settlement’s status as an independent nation—over which he was already the sole acknowledged leader—there would have been no impediment to his spirit (after his martyrdom) traveling to London and collapsing the British crown.
	www.cerebusfangirl.com /artists/louisriel3.html (13980 words)

	Peel's Prairie Provinces
		Students will use primary source material to examine the trial of Louis Riel and formulate an opinion as to the fairness of this trial.
		The teacher should explain to the panel members that they are not making a speech or reading a report, but rather are discussing whether or not the trial of Louis Riel was fair.
		After each member of the panel has had an opportunity to discuss the trial, the members of the audience may pose questions to individual panel members.
	www.library.ualberta.ca /peel/lesson-frcan.php (815 words)

	Browse by Subject: Riel, Louis - Mental health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louis 'David' Riel : prophet of the new world / Thomas Flanagan.
		Death for high treason : a study of the evidence in The Queen versus Louis Riel, 1885 / by Edwin C. Guillet, M.A. Speech of Mr.
		Riel : a life of revolution / Maggie Siggins.
	library.usask.ca:9003 /northwest/index/subject/372.html (128 words)

	MNC :: Media Release :: CBC Betrays mandate with airing of "The Re-trial of Louis Riel"
		The CBC is scheduled to air the "Re-trial of Louis Riel" program tomorrow on CBC's all news channel, Newsworld.
		The program in question is presenting a fictional trial of Riel allowing some of Canada's most famous lawyers to make up prosecution and defense cases twisting yesterday's facts with today's law.
		Gerald Morin, President of the MNC said, "For the Metis Nation the debate on Louis Riel's place as a father of confederation and as a victim of one of the great travesties in Canadian justice is closed.
	www.metisnation.ca /press/oct21-02.html (309 words)

	Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On October 21-23, CBC Newsworld aired three programs dealing with the topic of Louis Riel, his trial for treason and reactions from the Metis Nation.
		Metis people in Manitoba and other places in the Metis Homeland believed that this series on Louis Riel and the Metis people allowed for an opportunity to talk about the wrongs done to Riel and his people.
		This is an overwhelming vindication of the actions of the Riel and the Metis.
	www.mmf.mb.ca /coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EpZVkFulVEPIWcyOOO (257 words)

	Regina : In Depth \| Frommers.com
		Bitter arguments have been fought between those who regard Riel as a patriot and martyr and those who regard him as a rebel.
		Even though he took up the cause of the mixed-blood population of the west, French-speaking Canadians often regarded Riel as a martyr and English-speaking Canadians damned him as a madman.
		Written by John Coulter, The Trial of Louis Riel is a play based on the actual court records of the historical trial.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/regina/3046010012.html (218 words)

	Louis Riel - Wikimedia Commons
		en: Louis "David" Riel (October 22, 1844–November 16, 1885), was a Canadian politician and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.
		Tombstone of Louis Riel at the St. Boniface Cathedral
		Louis Riel in front of the Manitoba Legislature
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Louis_Riel (129 words)

	Saskatoon Public Library - Louis Riel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		345.710231 GOU The trial of Louis Riel: justice and mercy denied
		Louis Riel and the North-West Rebellion (Centre for Canadian Studies)
		Louis Riel (University of Saskatchewan Libraries and Archives)
	www.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca /is/riel.html (52 words)

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