Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

* 1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and " Father of Manitoba ", Louis Riel is executed for treason.

* November 16 – Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, is executed for high treason.

Emerging as a Métis leader was the educated Louis Riel, who denounced the government in a speech delivered in late August 1869 from the steps of Saint-Boniface Cathedral.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

* Gabriel Dumont ( Métis leader ) ( 1837 – 1906 ), Canadian indigenous leader of the Métis people

It is notable that Cartier had intended to support an amnesty for Riel for his role in setting up a Provisional government in the Northwest but that the Conservative government ended up reneging on its promise to secure amnesty for the Métis leader.

However, the situation changed in 1885 when the federal Conservative government executed Louis Riel, the leader of the French-speaking Métis people of western Canada.

Gabriel Dumont ( December 1837 – May 19, 1906 ) was a leader of the Métis people of what is now Western Canada.

Cuthbert Grant ( 1793 – July 15, 1854 ) was a prominent Métis leader of the early nineteenth century.

He was recognized as a leader of the Métis people, and became involved in the bitter struggle between the Nor ' westers and the Hudson's Bay Company stemming from the Pemmican Proclamation, which forbade anyone from exporting pemmican from the Red River Colony.

The Red River Rebellion or Red River Resistance was the sequence of events related to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.

* November 16-Louis Riel, politician and Métis leader ( b. 1844 )

In lower Terrebonne and surrounding parishes, names of Métis families include Dardar, Naquin, Verrett, Verdin, Theriot, Gregoire, Solet, Soulet, Picou, Parfait, and Dion.

Also about one mile northeast of Walhalla is the Gingras Trading Post, established in the 1840s by the Métis legislator and businessman Antoine Blanc Gingras.

The Métis were anxious about it, as many did not possess clear title to their lands.

That same day Riel led about 400 Métis in seizing Fort Garry without bloodshed.

He also decided to lie about his identity and told others he was a Métis.

Meanwhile, bands of Assiniboine living south of Battleford had heard about the Métis rebellion.

The act also set aside land for the Métis, with each family receiving scrip, a certificate, saying they owned 96 hectares of land, amount to a total of about.

Despite some successes, however, he was unable to prevent the withdrawal of many Métis from the province ( there were some suspicions about Morris's own speculation in land previously owned by the Métis ).

Gorée is known as the location of the House of Slaves (), built by an Afro-French Métis family about 1780 – 1784.

The Institute came about as a follow-up to a Métis Cultural Conference that initiated planning for what was then called the " Metis Education Institute.

Her screenplay Ikwe, about Métis women, was part of a National Film Board series which received a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in 1986.

The daughters achieved education and status first in the Catholic Church in Canada, where people may have been less concerned about their mixed ancestry, especially given the many Catholic Métis in the Montreal area.

Flanagan has served as a witness for Alberta, Manitoba, and Canada in litigation involving native rights and land claims, providing testimony about the Numbered Treaties and the administration of federal programs for Métis and Indians in Western Canada.

Métis Child and Family Services society feels strongly about providing services to Aboriginal families.

The Blais decision, as well as the later Manitoba Metis Federation case, upheld the efficacy of the nineteenth-century distribution of land and scrip in extinguishing Métis land rights in Manitoba.

However, he was criticized for an inability to maintain discipline among his men, and his decision to take a common-law Métis wife.

* provide Métis people an opportunity to participate in government ’ s policy and decision making process ; and, most importantly ;

They pushed for land to be allotted in the square concession system of English Canada, rather than the seigneurial system of strips reaching back from a river which the Métis were familiar with in their French-Canadian culture.

Under this doctrine The First Nations, Inuit, and Métis are though of a sovereign nations who are in a compact with Canada, rather than minority groups within the Canadian nation state.

Most Métis people today are not so much the direct result of First Nations and European intermixing any more than English Canadians today are the direct result of intermixing of Saxons and Britons.

Over the past century, countless Métis are thought to have been absorbed and assimilated into European-Canadian populations making Métis heritage ( and thereby aboriginal ancestry ) more common than is generally realized.

The Cree and Métis make up more than 90 % of the enrolled members of the tribe.

In particular the Métis population may be far higher than the official numbers state, due to earlier racism causing people to historically hide their mixed heritage.

The only case since Confederation in which the offender received the death penalty for an offence other than murder was the Métis leader, Louis Riel.

Semple died near the Red River Colony in what is generally known as the Battle of Seven Oaks when he led a party of approximately 25 Hudson Bay men, mostly English and Scottish colonists, to intercept a party of more than 60 members of the North West Company, mostly Métis and French-Canadians.

To date the Foundation through its Education Program has awarded more than $ 37-million in scholarships and bursaries to more than 9, 800 First Nations, Inuit and Métis students nationwide.

Since 1985 the Foundation through its Education Program has awarded more than $ 32-million in scholarships and bursaries to more than 8, 400 First Nations, Inuit and Métis students nationwide.

The Russian Trotter or Métis Trotter was developed in Russia to create a horse with a faster trotting speed than the older Russian Orlov Trotter.

Additionally, the Anglo-Métis / Countryborn had a more sedentary lifestyle of farming than the francophone Métis community, whose men were generally hunters and trappers.

Dumont had less than sixty Métis, and this small force held off the Canadian troops for a day.

An estimated 10, 000 self-identified Métis live in North Dakota ( mostly in Pembina County, North Dakota although their cultural status is softer than their brethren in Manitoba, Canada ).