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Louis 'David' Riel : Prophet of the New World
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ISBN: 1282008285 9786612008283 1442676825 9781442676824 0802008151 0802071848 9780802008152 9780802071842 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Earlier writers about Louis Riel noted his religious beliefs but did not take them seriously. They usually dismissed Riel's attempt to found a new religion as a symptom of a deranged mind. Thomas Flanagan takes Riel's religion seriously and analyses it using categories developed in the literature about millenarian movements. He shows that Riel's religion, far from being simply individual madness, is typical of the nativistic and millenarian movements described by one author as the 'religions of the oppressed.'. This is also a biography, tracing Riel's thinking on religious subjects from his childhood to the end of his life and paying particular attention to events that influenced his thinking. This developmental approach is necessary because Riel's ideas changed frequently; he never arrived at a fixed 'system.'. Louis Riel believed that on 8 December 1875 he received a divine commission authorizing him to save the metis and reform the Catholic Church. He was a prophet, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and the metis were the new chosen people. A new branch of the Catholic Church would be founded in North America, with its first Holy See in Montreal and its second in Riel's birthplace of St Vital. When Riel expressed these views in 1876, he was committed to a lunatic asylum. After his release, he suppressed his ideas for several years, only to reveal them again to his metis followers during the North-West Rebellion. The Rebellion thus became as much a religious as a political movement; to the end of his life Riel believed himself a prophet, and he went to his death thinking that he, like Christ, would be resurrected on the third day.


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The Great Lone Land : A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
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ISBN: 1107281229 1108071023 Year: 1872 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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An Irish officer in the British army, William Francis Butler (1838-1910) travelled widely during a career which took him from India to Africa. In 1867 he made for Canada with his regiment, and he recalls his adventures in this lively account, first published in 1872 to immediate success, and followed by this second edition in the same year. The book covers Butler's risky reconnaissance mission during the Red River Rebellion, during which he met the Métis leader Louis Riel. Later chapters describe subsequent journeys into the sparsely populated Manitoba and Saskatchewan territories, as well as the US states of Illinois, Minnesota and North Dakota. In vivid detail, Butler describes the landscapes and peoples he encountered, including many Native American tribes. This region of North America was later transformed by an influx of settlers, and Butler's work captures the final days of what was then an underexplored wilderness.


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Louis Riel and the creation of modern Canada
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ISBN: 1283636727 0826344178 9780826344175 0826344151 9780826344151 9781283636728 6613949183 9786613949189 9780826344151 Year: 2008 Publisher: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press

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Reid offers a look at the religious background of Louis Riel who was hung for his role in fomenting revolutions in the Canadian North-West Territory but has now become a national hero.

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Postcolonialism --- Nationalism --- National characteristics, Canadian. --- Metis --- Riel Rebellion, 1885. --- Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Canadian national characteristics --- Métis Rebellion, 1885 --- Northwest Rebellion, 1885 --- Saskatchewan Rebellion, 1885 --- Cree Indians --- Métis Rebellion, 1869-1870 --- Riel Rebellion, 1869-1870 --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- History --- Wars --- Mixed descent --- Riel, Louis, --- Riel, Louis David, --- Riel, David, --- Canada --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- Καναδάς --- Канада --- קאנאדע --- קנדה --- كندا --- کانادا --- カナダ --- 加拿大 --- 캐나다 --- Lower Canada --- Upper Canada --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Métis --- Kaineḍā --- Métis Rebellion, Canada, 1885 --- Métis Resistance, Canada, 1885 --- Northwest Campaign, Canada, 1885 --- Northwest Rebellion, Canada, 1885 --- Northwest Uprising, Canada, 1885 --- Riel Rebellion, 1885 --- Riel Rebellion, Canada, 1885 --- Riel Rebellion, 2nd, Canada, 1885 --- Riel Resistance, Canada, 1885 --- Riel's Insurrection, Canada, 1885 --- Riel's Rebellion, 2nd, Canada, 1885 --- Saskatchewan Rebellion, Canada, 1885 --- Saskatchewan Uprising, Canada, 1885 --- Manitoba Rebellion, Man., 1869-1870 --- Manitoba Uprising, Man., 1869-1870 --- Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 --- Red River Rebellion, Man., 1869-1870 --- Red River Revolt, Man., 1869-1870 --- Riel Rebellion, Man., 1869-1870 --- Riel Resistance, Man., 1869-1870 --- Riel's Revolt, Man., 1869-1870 --- Riel's Uprising, Man., 1869-1870 --- Red River Resistance, Man., 1869-1870. --- Northwest Resistance, Canada, 1885.

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