Viewed by some as a savior, and others as a traitor, Louis Riel, "The Father of Manitoba," nevertheless became the voice of the Métis people during an unstable time in Canadian History. From 1869 to 1885, Riel was the political (and quite possibly spiritual) leader of the Métis and their struggl...

The witness of a century Victoria Belcourt was born on 19 November 1861, in the Métis community of Lac Ste Anne, which was located northwest of Edmonton, part of Rupert's Land, was owned and controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company. The area would not become part of Canada ...

Canada is reputed as being a mosaic, a nation where multitudes of people of different races, ethnicities, religion and ure live at mutual peace, tolerance, and equality under the law. However, the mistreatment and neglect shown towards Canada's aboriginal peoples has dismissed this reputat...

Was Louis Riel a Hero or a Traitor? To be a hero or a traitor are the two distinct and opposite course in human history. Louis Riel was been a hero for the French Canadians and a traitor for the English Canadians as well. The person who defends the rights of the Metis and also the one who s...

There was a period of rapid change in western Canada in the 1870s and 1880s: buffalo herds were exterminated, treaties were signed with the Indians, the Canadian Pacific Railway was built and a wave of immigrants flooded the prairies. Indian and Metis people found it hard to give up their freedom ...

Louis Riel Imagine that the land you have been living on for years has been taken away. The government promises to help you technically and financially, but nothing is done to help. You and your family are starving and dying. This is what the government did to the Metis & First Peoples in the l...

The Pikunis Indians faced much adversity in the mid to late 1800s. The increasing amount of white contact with these native people drastically changed the way that they lived. It led to many terrible things, such as disease, loss of land, and loss of food sources. It also brought about more trade af...