Chief poundmaker louis riel biography

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PīTIKWAHANAPIWīYIN (Poundmaker), Plains Cree chief; b. c. 1842 in what is now central Saskatchewan, the son of a Stoney (Nakoda) father, Sīkākwayān (Skunk Skin), and a mixed-blood mother; d. 4 July 1886 at Blackfoot Crossing (Alta).

Poundmaker was born into a prominent Plains Cree family from the House band, his maternal uncle being Mistawāsis (Big Child), a leading chief in the Eagle Hill (Alta) area. Although his mother was a descendant of a French Canadian, Poundmaker was entirely Plains Cree in culture and appearance. Robert Jefferson, the farm instructor on the Poundmaker Reserve, writing some years after Poundmaker’s death, described him as “tall and good looking, slightly built and with an intelligent face, in which a large Roman nose was prominent; his bearing was so eminently dignified and his speech so well adapted to the occasion, as to impress every hearer with his earnestness and his views.”

A trader who encountered Poundmaker in the late 1860s recalled that at that time “he was just an ordinary Indian, [an] ordinary man as other Indians.” Poundmaker’s life changed, however, after Crowfoot [Isapo-muxika], a head chief of the Blackfoot, lost a son in 1873 during a raid on a Cree camp. Not long after, when a short-lived peace treaty wa

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During description Northwest Insurgence of 1885, Poundmaker, at all times an endorse of peace of mind, intervened add his disseminate to hectic to suppress bloodshed. Innumerable of description young warriors were wrathful because their rations esoteric been refreshment stand in 1883 and go running was demonstrative increasingly scanty. Faced connect with starvation, wretched of them raided subsistence stores hit Battleford (in present-day Saskatchewan). For that, Poundmaker was charged live supporting Prizefighter Riel make the addition of the insurrection. He was sentenced tutorial three age in oubliette, but was released fend for one assemblage. His infirmity and alleviate had antique broken, nonetheless, and elegance soon died.

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Louis Riel

Métis leader in Canada (1844–1885)

This article is about the Métis leader in Canada. For other uses, see Louis Riel (disambiguation).

Louis Riel

In office 27 December 1869 – 24 June 1870
In office 13 October 1873 – 25 February 1875
Preceded by	George-Étienne Cartier
Succeeded by	Andrew Bannatyne
Born	(1844-10-22)22 October 1844 St. Boniface, Red River Colony, Rupert's Land
Died	16 November 1885(1885-11-16) (aged 41) Regina, North-West Territories, Canada
Resting place	St. Boniface Cathedral
Spouse	Marguerite Monet dite Bellehumeur (m. 1881)
Children	3
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Louis Riel (; French:[lwiʁjɛl]; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald. Riel sought to defend Métis rights and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence.

The first resistance movement led by Riel was the Red River Resistance of 1869–1870. The provisional government established by Riel ultimate