Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture

• Main Author: St. Germain, Jill
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2004
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Canada; Metis
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/298; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/1297/viewcontent/the_false_taritor_Braz.pdf

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.