Louis 'David' Riel
Author: Thomas Flanagan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780802071842
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Louis 'David' Riel
Author: Thomas Flanagan
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780802008152
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Louis 'David' Riel
Author: Thomas Flanagan
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780887801181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKABBREVIATIONS PREFACE 1.Preparation 2. Testing 3. The Prophet in Chains 4. The New Religion 5. Waiting 6. The Prophet in Arms 7.Disappointment and Hope 8.A Comparative View NOTES INDEX
Louis Riel
Author: Chester Brown
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 2021-04-22
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1770460853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Brown won the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader's life. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.
Louis Riel
Author: Hartwell Bowsfield
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The False Traitor
Author: Albert Raimundo Braz
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780802083142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Biography--Riel, Louis [file Folder].
Author: Louis Riel
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRiel
Author: Maggie Siggins
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2010-10-25
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 1443402397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing portrait of one of our most enduring—and most isunderstood—legends could be an almost instant national bestseller. ‘Who is Louis Riel?’ Maggie Siggins asks, and comes up with some fascinating answers. Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic tyrant, Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel—a complex man full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Métis people. Infused with atmosphere and detail, this fascinating portrait is illuminating in its accounts of the people and events that moulded the enigmatic rebel. Revealing a man passionate about forging an equitable and just relationship between native and white people, Riel: A Life of Revolution is more relevant today than ever before.
Louis Riel, the Rebel and the Hero
Author: Hartwell Bowsfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA BIOGRAPHY OF THE CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE TWO METIS UPRISINGS OF EARLY CONFEDERATION, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS LIFE ON CANADA. (CANADIAN LIVES)
Louis Riel
Author: David G. Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781553804963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Louis Riel, prophet of the new world and founder of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has challenged Canadian politics, history and religion since the early years of Confederation. In Canada's most important and controversial state trial, Riel was found guilty of "high treason," sentenced to hang and executed on November 16, 1885. Was the execution of Riel the hanging of a traitor? Or the legal murder of a patriot and statesman? As reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is on the minds of many today, these are questions that must receive thoughtful answers. Weaving together Riel's words, writing and recent historical research, long-time Riel activist David Doyle provides Louis Riel with the opportunity for the first time to give his own account of his political career so as to assume his proper place in Canada's history as its Indigenous (Métis) Father of Confederation."--Publisher's website.
