Louis Riel and the Metis Rebellions

• Main Authors: Haider, Hamzah, Ahmad, Syed Zain, Phonthepsone, Kanita
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SOURCE: Sheridan Institutional Repository 2021
• Subjects: Louis Riel; Red River Rebellion; Hudson Bay Company; Northwest Resistance; Arts and Humanities; Indigenous Studies; Native American Studies; Race; Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Metis
• Online Access: https://source.sheridancollege.ca/swfhass_projects_public_history_frontier_life/2; https://louisrielandthemetisrebellions.weebly.com/

The goal of this project was to focus on Louis Riel and the Metis and Indigenous people of the mid to late 1800s in early Canada. We planned on creating a visualization that depicts the early life of Riel along with the circumstances that turned him from a priest-in-training to a central figure in two major rebellions following the sale of land from the Hudson’s Bay company to the Dominion of Canada. However, we decided to build a website highlighting Riel’s early life, the Red River and North-West Rebellions, and a look at the Metis people in contemporary Canada.