1885 Northwest Rebellion

The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 was a time of discontent among the Metis and Indian people with the Federal Government. Land titles were not respected, treaties weren’t being fulfilled, and the CPR fiasco are just some of the trigger factors that sparked this revolt. Led by Louis Riel, the revolt was a desperate reaction by the Metis against the government’s treatment of their people. This paper is set out to illustrate the events that …

…that the extermination of the people that came here and took away their land and status as a people should result if their rights could not be respected. In the end, the government wanted a white settler dominated population on the plains and just push those who were there first right out of the picture so expansion could occur. This was the case from the time of confederation, the domination of the white Anglo-Saxon settler.