| LC control no. | sh 85114039 |
|---|---|
| LC classification | F1060.9 |
| Topical heading | Northwest Resistance, Canada, 1885 |
| Variant(s) | 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 |
| See also | Cree Indians--Wars Métis--Wars |
| Found in | Haultain, A. A history of Riel's second rebellion and how it was quelled, 1885 Holland, W. H. Map of the seat of Riel's insurrection, 1885 Mulvany, C. P. The history of the North-west rebellion of 1885, 1885 Canada. Royal Commission into Claims for Compensation for Loss or Damage Arising Out of the Late Half-breed and Indian Insurrection in the North-West Territories. List of claims and awards, [1887] Canada. Department of the Interior. Facts for the people, the Northwest Rebellion, [1887]: title page (the question of the half-breeds and the government's treatment of them) Beal, B. Prairie fire, [1984]: title page (the 1885 North-West Rebellion) McLean, D. 1885, Metis rebellion or government conspiracy?, [1985] The North-west resistance of 1885 (Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. Curriculum Unit), [1985] Anderson, F. W. Riel's Saskatchewan rebellion, [1987] Canada. Geographical Services Division. Canada, the Northwest Campaign, 1885, [1987] Trottier, M. Blood upon our land, [2009]: title page (the North West Resistance diary of Josephine Bouvier) Barkwell, L. J. Veterans and families of the 1885 Northwest Resistance, [2011] Modrak, S. Rebellion, [2013]: title page (Saskatchewan uprising of 1885, the only armed rebellion in Canadian history, led by Louis Riel) Skrepichuk, W. P. Troop treks of 1885, [2019]: title page (the movement of Canadian troops along the north shore of Lake Superior to the North-West Rebellion of 1885) Dombowsky, P. Walter S. Allward, [2021]: pages 30-31 (Northwest Rebellion Monument, 1894--96; work depicts Peace as part of a monument to the enlisted soldiers and volunteers who died during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, when the Canadian government sent troops to suppress an uprising led by the Métis leader Louis Riel; the monument and the event it commemorates have been the subject of controversy in recent years, as the violence against First Nations and Métis people in Canada has become better understood, and today, an understanding of the conflict as a rejection of Métis sovereignty has been widely accepted by historians and others, and it is now commonly referred to as the Northwest Resistance) page 74 (Allward's sculptures have generally not attracted much in the way of negative attention, though an exception is the Northwest Rebellion Monument, 1894--96, for which he sculpted a female figure of Peace; Canadians at the time largely viewed the government's response to the uprising as necessary to maintain law and order in Western Canada, but the perspective has changed and it is now widely acknowledged that the conflict denied Métis sovereignty, with the events now commonly referred to as the Northwest Resistance) Canadian encyclopedia, online, viewed 8 September 2022: North-West Resistance (North-West Resistance or North-West Rebellion; violent, five-month insurgency against the Canadian government, fought mainly by Métis and their First Nations allies in what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta; caused by rising fear and insecurity among the Métis and First Nations peoples as well as the white settlers of the rapidly changing West; a series of battles and other outbreaks of violence in 1885 left hundreds of people dead, but the resisters were eventually defeated by federal troops, resulting in the permanent enforcement of Canadian law in the West, the subjugation of Plains Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the conviction and hanging of Louis Riel; the Red River and North-West Rebellions are known by many names, including the "Riel Rebellions," the "Manitoba Rebellion", the "Saskatchewan Rebellion", and the "Red River Resistance," the "1885 Resistance" and the "Northwest Resistance", with Indigenous studies scholars and many historians referring to the Métis and First Nations uprisings as resistances to frame them as reactions against European colonization) Indigenous peoples atlas of Canada web site, viewed 8 September 2022: 1885 Northwest Resistance (the seeds of the 1885 Northwest Resistance began as early as the 1870s becuause of the lack of Métis representation in the government of the North-West Territories, the Métis remained frustrated even after representation was granted in the 1880s that the federal government did not address their many petitions regarding their lack of formal title to their lands and their desire for proper political representation because they did not want to be dispossessed like they had been in Manitoba following the Red River Resistance of 1869-70) Britannica, online, viewed 8 September 2022: North-West Rebellion (also called North-West Resistance, Second Riel Rebellion, or Northwest Uprising; violent insurgency in 1885 fought between the Canadian government and the Métis and their aboriginal allies, in regions of Canada later known as Saskatchewan and Alberta; triggered by rising concern and insecurity among the Métis about their land rights and survival following an influx of white settlers and a decline in bison; a series of battles left dozens of Métis and Cree warriors and Canadian soldiers wounded or dead, and the Métis and their allies were eventually defeated by federal troops and rebel leader Louis Riel was convicted and hanged) Rupertsland Institute web site, viewed 8 September 2022: Métis homeland (in 1885, Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont led an armed resistance in northwestern Saskatchewan, with support from local farmers and the Blackfoot and Cree Indians, near the Métis settlements of Duck Lake and Batoche, which was crushed by the Canadian army at a final battle in Batoche) Parks Canada web site, viewed 8 September 2022: Battle of Tourond's Coulee / Fish Creek National Historic Site (understand the plight of the Métis resistance and their First Nations allies battling against the might of the Northwest Field Force in 1885 in their final victory of the Northwest Resistance) Batoche National Historic Site (the final battlefield of the Northwest Resistance of 1885, Batoche is the scene of Louis Riel's last stand and a symbol of Métis resilience and cultural renewal) Répertoire de vedettes-matière, via OCLC, viewed 8 September 2022: Rébellion de Riel, 1885 (broader terms [translated]: Cree Indians--Wars, Indians of North America--Wars--Canada--1814-1885, Métis--Wars--Canada, Northwest Territories--History--1870-1905) Meeting with the Rupertsland Center for Métis Research, 23 March 2023 (Northwest Resistance is the term currently used in scholarship; Riel Resistance may be helpful for searching) |
 |  |  |