Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture
In The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture, Albert Braz examines treatments of the mercurial nineteenth-century Metis leader in an astonishing array of plays, poems, novels, television dramas, Hollywood films, and sculpture. His study spans the century and more since Riel emerged at the he...
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DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2004
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/298 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/1297/viewcontent/the_false_taritor_Braz.pdf |
| Summary: | In The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture, Albert Braz examines treatments of the mercurial nineteenth-century Metis leader in an astonishing array of plays, poems, novels, television dramas, Hollywood films, and sculpture. His study spans the century and more since Riel emerged at the head of the Metis resistance at Red River, Manitoba, in 1869-70 and was executed in 1885 as a traitor to Canada for his role in fomenting rebellion on the Saskatchewan. |
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