1885 AD
Métis and Indigenous allies resist in the North-West
British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency · Indigenous peoples & dispossession
Ignored petitions over land title and political survival led to a Métis provisional government at Batoche and conflict across the plains. The railway enabled Canada to deploy troops; Louis Riel was executed for treason and Cree leaders imprisoned, deepening national divisions and dispossession
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