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Book Le messianisme de Louis Riel

Download or read book Le messianisme de Louis Riel written by Gilles Martel and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1984-10-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le premier mai 1876 Louis Riel écrivait à Mgr Courget: "Le Saint-Espirt m'a dit: Tu es le Messie de Gloire humaine que la Maison de Jacob s'attendait à trouver dans le Verbe incarné". A la suite de quel cheminement psychologique et sous la pression de quels facteurs sociaux Louis Riel en arriva-t-il à cette convition? Quelle fut l'évolution de cette idéologie messianique et millénariste tout ou long de sa vie? Enfin quel rôle joua cette idéologie dans ses actions politiques entre 1869 et 1885? Utilisant abondamment des sources manuscrites souvent inédites, la présent analyse de sociologie historique entend situer la personne de Riel dans l'historie collective du peuple métis. La description circonstanciée des bouleversements socioéconomiques du peuple métis et l'analyse détaillée des traumatismes psychologiques de Louis Riel se conjuguent pour éclairer d'un jour nouveau cette page controversée de l'histoire canadienne.

Book Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada

Download or read book Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada written by Jennifer Reid and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].

Book Louis  David  Riel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Flanagan
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802071842
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Louis David Riel written by Thomas Flanagan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography, focussing on Riel's prophetic mission.

Book Religion and Global Culture

Download or read book Religion and Global Culture written by Jennifer I. M. Reid and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004-01-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion whose concern is situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. Each of the volume's contributors has independently explored the implications of the work of leading historian of religion, Charles H. Long, who has located religion in the contacts and exchanges of the colonial and post-colonial periods. Together with Long, these scholars consider phenomena ranging from hierophanies of water in Tokyp and the civil and ritual activities of African Immigrant communities in the United States to the philosophy of Sankara and the regional reprecussions of multinational business. They invite a reconfiguration of the study of religion by localizing religion itself in the conflicted and cooperative relationships of the colonial and post-colonial periods."

Book Louis Riel

Download or read book Louis Riel written by Sharon Stewart and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it. He was a pioneer in the field of Aboriginal rights and land claims but was branded an outlaw in his own time. In 1885, he was executed for treason. In 1992, the House of Commons declared Riel a founder of Manitoba. November 16 is now designated Louis Riel Day in Canada.

Book Les Ecrits Complets de Louis Riel

Download or read book Les Ecrits Complets de Louis Riel written by Louis Riel and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1985 with total page 2250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical, definitive edition is composed of five annotated volumes: three of letters, diaries, declarations, and other prose writings, ordered chronologically; one of poetry; and a reference volume. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Riel and his influence on the history of Western Canada.

Book Mixed Blessings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tolly Bradford
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2016-04-01
  • ISBN : 0774829427
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Mixed Blessings written by Tolly Bradford and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed Blessings transforms our understanding of the relationship between Indigenous people and Christianity in Canada from the early 1600s to the present day. While acknowledging the harm of colonialism, including the trauma inflicted by church-run residential schools, this interdisciplinary collection challenges the portrayal of Indigenous people as passive victims of malevolent missionaries who experienced a uniformly dark history. Instead, this book illuminates the diverse and multifaceted ways that Indigenous communities and individuals – including prominent leaders such as Louis Riel and Edward Ahenakew – have interacted, and continue to interact, meaningfully with Christianity.

Book Riel and the Rebellion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Flanagan
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802082824
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Riel and the Rebellion written by Thomas Flanagan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sparked national controversy when it was first published in 1983. Updated to include recent developments, such as native rights and land claims, the cultural mythology that surrounds Riel, and the recent campaign to have him pardoned.

Book Riel s Defence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans V. Hansen
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-06-01
  • ISBN : 0773590471
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Riel s Defence written by Hans V. Hansen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885, Louis Riel was charged with high treason, found guilty, and consequently executed for his role in Saskatchewan's North-West Rebellion. During his trial, the Métis leader gave two speeches, passionately defending the interests of the Métis in western Canada as well as his own life. Riel's Defence studies these speeches, demonstrating the range of Riel's political and personal concerns. The first and better known of the two speeches addresses the jury, while Riel's second speech - rarely reprinted - addresses the court following his guilty verdict. Both orations have been edited, annotated, and reprinted, and are followed by essays from diverse perspectives including philosophy, law, history, political science, religion, and communication studies. Through the course of their inquiry, contributors come to understand more about Riel's personal character and political thought, as well as his arguments supporting Métis land claims, grievances against the federal government, and his immigration plan for the North-West. Evaluating the rhetorical quality, legal merit, and cultural stakes of his speeches, Riel's Defence reveals the significance of the last public statements made by a man who indelibly shaped Canada’s history by combining his personal vision with a national vision.

Book Quest Biographies Bundle     Books 21   25

Download or read book Quest Biographies Bundle Books 21 25 written by Julie H. Ferguson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist Robertson Davies; and the “Father of British Columbia,” James Douglas. Includes Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas

Book Quest Biographies Bundle     Books 21   30

Download or read book Quest Biographies Bundle Books 21 30 written by Julie H. Ferguson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer Robertson Davies; and early movie star Mary Pickford. Includes Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford

Book Daniels v  Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathalie Kermoal
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2021-04-23
  • ISBN : 0887559298
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Daniels v Canada written by Nathalie Kermoal and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Métis and non-status Indians were “Indians” under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Métis relationships with the federal government. However, the decision (and the case) continues to reverberate far beyond its immediate policy implications. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide array of professional contexts, this volume demonstrates the power of Supreme Court of Canada cases to directly and indirectly shape our conversations about and conceptions of what Indigeneity is, what its boundaries are, and what Canadians believe Indigenous peoples are “owed.” Attention to Daniels v. Canada’s variegated impacts also demonstrates the extent to which the power of the courts extend and refract far deeper and into a much wider array of social arenas than we often give them credit for. This volume demonstrates the importance of understanding “law” beyond its jurisprudential manifestations, but it also points to the central importance of respecting the power of court cases in how law is carried out in a liberal nation-state such as Canada.

Book Louis Riel

Download or read book Louis Riel written by Hartwell Bowsfield and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of Louis Riel (1844-85) spanned only fifteen years, yet he is one of the most controversial and colourful people in Canadian history. The central figure in two rebellions, which he led on behalf of the French-speaking half-breeds called Metis, Riel has caught the imagination of Canadians as few other historical personalities have done. His career began with the acts of resistance at the Red River Settlement in 1869, and continued through the formation of a Provisional Government and the notorious shooting of Thomas Scott in 1870, through years of mental illness and exile in the United States, to the North West Rebellion of 1885. It reached an inevitable climax with his surrender and trial and the passionate outpouring of feeling that rocked the country when he was found guilty of treason and executed. The religious and racial emotions of the time, the bigotry and opportunism of politicians, and Riel's own unstable mental condition all combine to make of his life a Canadian tragedy, one that had profound consequences for Confederation.

Book From New Peoples to New Nations

Download or read book From New Peoples to New Nations written by Gerhard J. Ens and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years. Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today’s legal and political debates.

Book 1885 and After

Download or read book 1885 and After written by F. L. Barron and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The papers contained in this volume were presented originally at the "1885 and After" Conference, held at the University of Saskatchewan ..."--P. [vii]

Book Honor   Jaxon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald B. Smith
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2023-11-01
  • ISBN : 1487550170
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Honor Jaxon written by Donald B. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1861 to a Methodist family, William Henry Jackson grew up in Ontario before moving to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he sympathized with the Métis and became personal secretary to Louis Riel. After the Métis defeat a Regina court committed the young English Canadian idealist to the lunatic asylum at Lower Fort Garry. He eventually escaped to the United States, joined the labour union movement, and renounced his race. Self-identifying as Métis, he changed his name to the French-sounding “Honoré Jaxon” and devoted the remainder of his life to fighting for the working class and the Indigenous peoples of North America. In Honoré Jaxon, Donald B. Smith draws on extensive archival research and interviews with family members to present a definitive biography of this complex political man. The book follows Jaxon into the 1940s, where his life mission became the establishment of a library for the First Nations in Saskatchewan, collecting as many books, newspapers, and pamphlets relating to the Métis people as possible. In 1951, at age ninety, he was evicted from his apartment and his library discarded to the New York City dump. In poor health and broken in spirit, he died one month later. Heavily illustrated, Honoré Jaxon recounts the complicated story of a young English Canadian who imagined a society in which English and French, Indigenous and Métis would be equals.

Book Canadian Cultural Heritage Bundle

Download or read book Canadian Cultural Heritage Bundle written by Sharon Stewart and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman; Metis revolutionary Louis Riel; and frontiersman Simon Girty, who adopted and respected Native culture long before the vast majority of white people, we discover that the struggle for inclusion and human rights has existed since the dawn of Canada’s modern history. Includes Harriet Tubman Louis Riel Simon Girty