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The Metis - A People - A Nation

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The Aboriginal people are defined in the Canadian
Constitution Act - 1982, as Indian, Inuit and Metis.

"My people will sleep for one hundred years when they awake,
it will be the artists who give them their spirit back." Louis Riel

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Father of Manitoba, who gave his life for his people : The Metis.
"Pray that God may preserve the little Metis nation, and cause it to grow... and remain faithful to its mission. During five years that I must pass in exile, I have only this to say to the Metis, remain Metis, become more Metis than ever."   ~ Louis Riel 1875

Louis Riel 1844-85, Canadian insurgent, leader of two rebellions, Manitoba, of French and metis parentage. In 1869-70 he led the rebels of the Red River settlements, mainly metis and indigenous peoples, who felt that their rights were threatened by the transfer (1869) of the Hudson's Bay Company territory to Canada. When the government dispatched (1870) troops to face the rebels, the Red River Rebellion collapsed, and Riel fled the country. In that year, under the Manitoba Act, the Red River settlements were accorded a provincial government. Riel returned to Canada and was elected to the House of Commons, but was expelled (1874) and declared an outlaw (1875). In 1884 he returned to lead a group of indigenous people and metis who were bent on securing titles to their lands in Saskatchewan. The uprising ended with an engagement (1885) at Batoche. He was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.

"Oh my Metis Nation! Take courage! I see you change:   It is great...the more you lend yourself to truth...it will make you great, strong, and powerful".   ~ Louis David Riel, April 29, 1885

 

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This fire is a memorial to those people who suffered and died on the infamous 'Trail of Tears.  It also commemorates the reuniting of the Eastern and Western Cherokee Nations here at Red Clay.  Aug., 7, 1837 -- Apr., 6, 1984
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