Louis Reil
Louis Riel is probably the most famous and well-known Métis that had ever lived. Métis were people who had aboriginal and French-Canadian parents, Métis is a French word that means "mixed" or "mixed blood". Riel was a man of ideas and was a man who was knowledged in the government. He did many important heroics in Canadian History, he was a leader of the Métis people and was looked up to and respected very much by his people. He got into trouble with the Canadian government many times in his life, but he never changed his beliefs, viewpoint or attitude about what he thought of about and for his Métis people. He did all he could and all he was capable of doing at his full potential to help the way the Métis people were living and being treated. Mr. Riel was a very well educated Lawyer in the first years of his career life and then he became a teacher after he was forced to move away from where he was previously living. In the life of Louis Riel Canada was expanding westward and the Canadian government was taking away the Métis people's land and their rights were being encroached upon. Many people, such as the Canadian Government and the English people were very racist towards the Métis and the aboriginal people of North America.
Louis David Riel was born in the year 1844 on January 21st. When he was 10 years old he attended an all boys Catholic school at St. Boniface till he was 14 in 1858. He had studied Latin and he graduated and went on to Collage accompanied by two other Métis boys. Louis Riel was a very literate person and when he was 20 years old he started a poem book and he entered his first poem. One of those poems was:
My Radiant Native Blood
My veins course with native blood:
And I...
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...evoted my life to my country. If it is
necessary for the happiness of my country that I
should now cease to live. I leave it to the
Providence of my God.
Louis Riel
(From the Yellow Booklet of Louis Riel Essay Material)
The statement on his execution was this:
For assisting to alleviate the wrongs of my countrymen I am to be… but I will not say it. For having done all I could to better the condition of the people at large as an aboriginal, as an American and as a prophet will I lose my temporal life.
Louis Riel
(From the Yellow Booklet of Louis Riel Essay Material)
Today Louis Riel is still thought of as a Father Of Confederation by many people, what he did for Canada over 100 years ago is still thought about all the time. People often debate about what happened to him, and if it was right or wrong, or good or bad.
Others like the British had thought of him mostly as a traitor, because they were not able to understand that Louis Riel had just needed the Canadian government to treat his people fairly, and that he was willing to do everything for his people. Instead, the government thought that he was violent and evil, so a threat to them. Most people who had seen him as a traitor had realized that he did everything for his people.after his death. My first reason for saying that Louis Riel was a hero is that he was the founder of Manitoba. Which is why he said things like "I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba" or “And the province of Manitoba”.
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