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Book The Collected Writings of Louis Riel

Download or read book The Collected Writings of Louis Riel written by Louis Riel and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 5 June 1884 16 November 1885

Download or read book 5 June 1884 16 November 1885 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Riel Problem

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  • Author : Albert Braz
  • Publisher : University of Alberta
  • Release : 2024-04
  • ISBN : 1772127337
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Riel Problem written by Albert Braz and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Braz examines how Louis Riel has been commemorated since 1967, charting his transformation from traitor to Canadian hero.

Book Bois Br  l  s

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  • Author : Michel Bouchard
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 0774862351
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Bois Br l s written by Michel Bouchard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of Métis as having Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario. Quebec residents who seek recognition as Métis under the Canadian Constitution therefore face an uphill legal and political battle. Who is right? Bois-Brûlés examines archival and ethnographic evidence to challenge two powerful nationalisms – Métis and Québécois – that interpret Métis identity in the province as “race-shifting.” This controversial work, previously available only in French, conclusively demonstrates that a Métis community emerged in early-nineteenth-century Quebec and can be traced all the way to today.

Book The False Traitor

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  • Author : Albert Raimundo Braz
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802083142
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The False Traitor written by Albert Raimundo Braz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century Métis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been depicted variously as a traitor to Confederation; a French-Canadian and Catholic martyr; a bloodthirsty rebel; a pan-American liberator; a pawn of shadowy white forces; a Prairie political maverick; a First Nations hero; an alienated intellectual; a victim of Western industrial progress; and even a Father of Confederation. Albert Braz synthesizes the available material by and about Riel, including film, sculpture, and cartoons, as well as literature in French and English, and analyzes how an historical figure could be portrayed in such contradictory ways. In light of the fact that most aesthetic representations of Riel bear little resemblance not only to one another but also to their purported model, Braz suggests that they reveal less about Riel than they do about their authors and the society to which they belong. The most comprehensive treatment of the representations of Louis Riel in Canadian literature, The False Traitor will be a seminal work in the study of this popular Canadian figure.

Book Riel s Defence

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  • 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 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 Metis and the Medicine Line

Download or read book Metis and the Medicine Line written by Michel Hogue and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities forged in the intense rivalries of the fur and provisions trade. Michel Hogue explores how, as fur trade societies waned and as state officials looked to establish clear lines separating the United States from Canada and Indians from non-Indians, these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West. Grounded in extensive research in U.S. and Canadian archives, Hogue's account recenters historical discussions that have typically been confined within national boundaries and illuminates how Plains Indigenous peoples like the Metis were at the center of both the unexpected accommodations and the hidden history of violence that made the "world's longest undefended border."

Book Unsound Empire

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  • Author : Catherine L. Evans
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2021-09-28
  • ISBN : 0300263023
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Unsound Empire written by Catherine L. Evans and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth‑century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to deserve it. Establishing the mental element of guilt—criminal responsibility—transformed state violence into law. And yet, to the consternation of officials in Britain and beyond, experts in new scientific fields posited that insanity was widespread and growing, and evolutionary theories suggested that wide swaths of humanity lacked the self‑control and understanding that common law demanded. Could it be fair to punish mentally ill or allegedly “uncivilized” people? Could British civilization survive if killers avoided the noose?

Book Canadiana

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences

Download or read book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.

Book Looking forward  looking back

Download or read book Looking forward looking back written by Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Writings of Louis Riel

Download or read book The Collected Writings of Louis Riel written by Louis Riel and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Scott s Body

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  • Author : J.M. Bumsted
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2000-11-17
  • ISBN : 0887553877
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Thomas Scott s Body written by J.M. Bumsted and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.

Book Louis Riel Collection    correspondence and Papers  1860 1926    Abstract and Index

Download or read book Louis Riel Collection correspondence and Papers 1860 1926 Abstract and Index written by Louis Riel and published by . This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archivaria

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 910 pages

Download or read book Archivaria written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: