The Mixed-Race Indigenous Nation Who Led The Red River Rebellion | Nations At War | Absolute History
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- In 1885, Louis Riel and rebel Métis would stun the upstart Canadian government with a violent uprising. Dismissed and dispossessed, the Metis would fight to secure a place in their own homeland.
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I am Métis from near this area. My Great Great Grandmother was there, during this rebellion. She was a little Native girl, and hid under a Red River Cart to escape her enemies, and survive. It’s an interesting place to go if you can, Batoche. The Rebellion is one of the most important & exciting things to happen in all of Canadian history! (IMO)
I have been to Batoche, many years ago. A moving experience. The commonwealth, of course, always won at that point at least. Thanks to the Metis!!
@@robertahall4960 I would love to go back to Batoche, as I haven’t been there in many years as well. Take my daughters with me too, and teach them about their proud heritage.
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Greetings cousin from your US Métis family.
My ancestor was there. He sentenced Thomas Scott to death.
The point you are all missing is that Scot settlers arrived in Canada and later New Zealand and those settlers were intermingling with indigenous people is because the Scots did NOT have to learn about tribal issues. They innately understood because they also were fiercely clannish. They were essentially putting on shoes that had the same ‘fit’ as their homeland. They knew about land, tribal or clan dynamics. The same thing happened with Maori tribes in New Zealand. It explains why most Maori families in the South or New Zealand where the white whalers had settlements, have got Scots surname.
Yes!
I agree! The Scottish highlanders culture was very similar to Native American peoples. The Scots were very tribal. The Clans looked after each other.They also believed the land belonged to the people, although each had their own territories and they lived off the land. The Scottish monarchs were always King or Queen of Scots not Scotland, the people, not the Land.
That's very true. Never thought of that, it's fascinating!
Fascinating idea that I would love to look into more! I am Metis on my mom's side, two of my great great great grandmothers (one was G'witchin, one was Cree) both married Scottish fur traders, one from the Orkney Islands.
@lauralott2741 Clan-Somerville here from Canada
I finally got to learn more about Canada. The US doesn’t learn enough about it IMO
Let’s be real, the US doesn’t want us to learn about our own history.
As an Albertan, if Riel rose again I'd follow him. But I'm fucking crazy.
Crazy is good 🙌 we get stuff done! AND we reach our crazy dreams because we have crazy dreams! ☺️
That's two of us
You arent crazy, we need another Louis Riell to stop the lunatics in charge here
To hell and back...coz to hell and back
Our history here in Hong Kong is so wrapped up in this story. Many of the young Canadian soldiers who came here to fight in WW2 were Metis. And some of those part Scots. And of course most of the big not Chinese families here are Scottish.
wow I did not know that! Thank you for sharing
Winnipeg Grenadiers... surely would have had a number of Metis in their ranks....
@@frakismaximus3052their were thousands of metis and inuit in the military during the war so it’s possible
So great to see this piece of history getting a higher profile
I’m an American who loves history and am so glad I found this video as I had heard of Louis Reil but this gave so much more in depth history. Thank you!
Louis Reil was a horse thief
Well presented, I have gained much more respect for Louis Riel and the Métis after watching this.
He was a horse thief
@@DixieNormus-di3nv And a murderer..
The Metis fights are similar to the wars waged by Seminoles, Sioux and Nez Pearce peoples in the States.
well louis riels wife came from the states and there are still many metis people along the border of canada and the states
Interrupting your own show for a HistoryHit promo with the presenter in mid-sentence is unprofessional. This isn't even a UA-cam thing. It's an editing thing. Get it together.
Here in Manitoba we have a holiday in February, Louis Riel Day. Since it's a day off, I always ask people if they want to "hang" 😆
YOU DID NOT JUST-
“Get riel man! “ - said a northwest mounted “police”.
(If it’s not your land and you kidnap and kill the inhabitants, aren’t you just invaders rather than the police? No juris without jurisdiction?
Only in manitoba we give a horse thief his own holiday 😂
I love seeing videos on my people's history ☺️
Me too! I get way too excited
I love hearing about indigenous history! Because just like in the Polynesian Islands, most things get swept under the colonizing country's rug.
Who are ur people?
I have ancestry in the French Canadian community as well as scottish. It's interesting to get a better understanding in Canadian history as I am more familiar in US history seeing that I was born in the US and a US citizen. Don't know much how Canada began. Very similar how the US began. Sadly it included persecution of the natives that lived here first.
"Persecution of natives" is a bit strong for what happened in Canada
@@frakismaximus3052 You’re right, it was more like systemic genocide
Anglo English wrote the history books you see today... they will seek to make themselves look better. Other people's besides the English in the Northeast did not write much history ie... French, Indigenous peoples... so gf.
The First Nations people had called this land home, not for generations, but for 15,000 years, at the very least.
@Guy Fawkes Good comment.
Louise Riel est encore de nos jour considéré comme un héros au Québec
C' est lui qui a fait conaître la cause va les journaux de l' époque
Et aujourd'hui dans nos cours d' histoire ont en discutent ....
oh my god. i can't watch yet because i have such strong emotions lol but i'm proud to see our nation's story on such a big channel!!!
Tanks for this very good production video. I am french Acadien canadien libertarian EST coast Gaspé péninsula chalors Bay I am 68 my grandmother mother side was Metis Micmac Alvina Hébert from Shediak NB
Hope to meet Favel, Irvine, Folster, Park, Lambert, McElroy, Scott, Way, Prince, Oig families out there!
Love this
You learn a lot it would’ve been hard back then
Wow!!!! I could watch these videos all day. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you!
The first local versus foreigner rebellion of 1869 is far more interesting and had a much bigger impact.....
Gabriel Dumont deserves a Canadian coin.
As well : Riel
Suggestion 😉😉😉
So does Toussaint Lucier/lussier
"Oh, Middleton's men from the Fish Creek fight running like the devil from the Half-Breed might"
Thanks.
Definition of ironic justice - the empty Hudson Bay Company building in Winnipeg on Portage Ave will be developed by Manitoba Chiefs. I for one, wish them total success. I hope they put a history museum in their plan, since the Forks is already occupied.
Very confusing thumbnail given that the Scots are indigenous to Scotland
Métis are indigenous to the prairies
In Canada we refer to the First Nation People as Indigenous. Metis were also mixed with French as well
The white race is INDIGENOUS to Europe.
Scots came from the Scotti who where a tribe from the North of Ireland
@@keithlightminder3005 I respectfully disagree . This is where I live and metis came when settlers did
When he said “it’s 1885” my first reaction was “ no it isn’t” lol
Oof
u get enough sleep last night?
Both sides of my ancestry where original red river colony inhabitants and I'm told that Gabriel Dumont is a direct family ancestor on my gran mother's side witch is Lataune* my mother's side is landrie and my fathers side is Trotchie or Trottier pronounced the same
*not shur of the spelling it is my granmothers madian name her maired name is Landrie I was adopted when I was 6 and my name changed from Trotchie to Sather my mother remaried a good man and father to me and my siblings not menny men would marry a woman with 6 kids and raise them as his own . I'm so very prowed of the man I chose to call dad !
Both men and women remarried as soon as possible usually because the men needed a women to watch his kids and the woman needed someone to support her children and herself. It was usually a contract of convenience that served it’s purpose.
Gabriel Dumont married Suzanne Lussier/ Lucier: There are many ways to spell Lussier/lussyer/Lucier etc, etc
Why are some commenters referring to themselves as "scotch"?
Scotch is the name for Scottish whiskey not a person and a Scot is a person originating from Scotland.
Exactly
I descend from the Crawford Clan of Scotland....William Wallace was raised by my direct ancestor Hugh Crawford who was the brother of William Wallace's mother.
@@julieloper291 Oh god you're one of those Americans...FFS, practically every time one of you claim something like that, it's absolute BS.
I am proud to be scottish
The scottish were those who went against Dumont and Riel with the Canadian government. The metis were mainly a mix of french canadians and north american natives.
Now this is MY own history.
Nah, u didn’t do sh*t
You don't get credit for their actions lol
his ancestors' history, that better anal retentive people?
Who said credit, ? I said my history. My genetic history. Maybe people should not add things never said.
Awsome
i am scotch/Cherokee n thought my family was rather unique in being about eqaul scottish and 1 specific tribe. cool to learn about others with a similar bg exist at all.
my family is french cree and sioux i would assume Chippewa also since louis riels wife was a relative of mine and my family is her family were also some of the only belhumeurs in canada atleast in my area
@@doilooklikeicare337 very interesting! I sadly don't know much about either of my great-grandmothers who were Cherokee, thou I did hear some stories about my mom's grandma a bit. Apparently she treasured her bg and passed this along to my mom.
I share a common ancestor with Louis Riel, Jean-Baptiste Riel 1645-Death
18 February 1753
Lavaltrie, Berthier, Québec Canada
Their infinity flag ♾ is so cool
1. We're not simply mixed race, we are an ethnicity. Our mix was from a very specific time & place, we have specific cultural traditions, language, and political governing structures.
2. It was not a rebellion, we were not subjects of the crown. the HBC sold land that didn't belong to it. None of the First Nations or Metis people on the plains were subjects of the crown and we did not consent.
Please consider changing the title to reflect this. The language you use to educate about us matters, it shapes how people see it. Ultimately, the language you've selected now contributes to the systemic erasure of our history. The term rebellion was used to paint us as people who stalled progress and worked to undermine the narrative Canada was trying to sell abroad about free and open land for white settlers. We've all seen those posters and heard the stories about the savages. Canada pushed Metis people onto the road allowances and worked very hard to paint us as worthless, lazy drunks, after. Racism is alive and well, please do your part to change those perceptions. We are more than the story of one man. Lii Michif Wiiya. We are opitemisiwak - those who own themselves. We are free. We are self-governing, and we are protected by section 35 of the constitution for a reason. Maarsii, Hiyhiy, Megwetch.
My uncle Gabriel Dumont was in this war
well my uncle louis riel fought here also crazy how both ancestors of these guys on in the same comment section btw hes married into my family hints his wife marguerite monet is my auntie
Hello cuz! I'm a Trottier . ...
Hey that’s like my family. I did my genealogy and one of my ancestors hid some of the eastern Cherokee, the Weaver family was their “Christian” names. Anyway my dads Scottish ancestors hid the weaver family in Tennessee then Texas, and married their sons to Weaver daughters.
So now your surname is "Wolf child"? Lol
@@frakismaximus3052 No Wolf Child is what my Cherokee/Choctaw great grandfather on my mother's side, used to call me when I was little and he was alive.
Nottoway Blackfoot Southern VA natives, unite!
Gerald lee winston member saponi nation ohio YES UNITE !
Yes unite
Apparently they had freedom in Canada in 1885...
don't worry there will be no more of that around here
I wish there was still freedom somewhere now....
It wasn’t Canada then.
remember if you can trace your roots previous to 1867 you're Indigenous, as your family was here before there was a Canada. Canada taken from the name of a aboriginal village called Kanada
It's sad to see yet another story that leaves out Augustin Parisien's actions on the day of Thomas Scott's Execution, this is from Charles Boulton's memoir written in 1885
"Six soldiers had been chosen to shoot Scott. I have here again to write the name of a man whose behaviour in that circumstance reflects on him the greatest honour. Augustin Parisien, one of the six soldiers, declared openly that he would not shoot at Scott; in fact, he took off the cap from his gun before the word of command ‘present’ was given. Of the five balls remaining, only two hit the poor victim, one on the left shoulder, and the other in the upper part of the chest above the heart. Had the other soldiers missed the mark undesignedly, or had they intentionally aimed away from Riel’s victim, it is not known. However that may be, as the two wounds were not sufficient to cause death, at least sudden death, a man, named Guillemette stepped forward and discharged the contents of a pistol close to Scott’s head while he was lying on the ground. This ball, however, took a wrong direction. It penetrated the upper part of the left cheek and came out somewhere about the cartilage of the nose. Scott was still not dead, but that did not prevent his butchers from placing him alive and still speaking, in a kind of coffin made of four rough boards. It was nailed and plated in the south-eastern bastion, and an armed soldier was placed at the door. This would seem like a story made at one’s ease, if there were not several credible witnesses who, between the hours of five and six in the evening, heard the unfortunate Scott speaking from under the lid of his coffin, and it was known that he had been shot at half-past twelve. What a long and horrible agony, and what ferocious cruelty was this on the part of his butchers. The words heard and understood by the French Metis were only these ‘My God, My God!’ Some English Metis, and those understanding English, heard distinctly these words: ‘For God’s sake take me out of here or kill me.’ Towards 11 o’clock - that is, after ten and a half hours of frightful agony - a person, whose name I shalt withhold for the present, went into the bastion, and, according to some, gave him the finishing stroke with a butcher’s knife, with a pistol, according to others. After having inflicted the last blow on poor Scott, that person said, as he was coming back from the bastion: ‘He is dead this time!’ The corpse was left for a few days in the south-eastern bastion, being guarded by the soldiers, relieving each other in turn."
It was a resistance not a rebellion, there was no valid claim by Canada on the area yet
Osiyo and This pretty much sums up Appalachia and don't forget the Irish was in on this too..and yes the french...but the scotts and irish didn't have to learn crap.. they're already a family & clan oreinted society... I'm half Cherokee and my old man's last name is Campbell ( yes I know it's Scottish..but my Campbell's actually hail from Ireland)..my old man is half Irish and Cherokee and alot of our family hailed from Appalachia..and we can trace our family to the trail of tears..and Nancy Ward ( nanyahei or wild rose beloved woman) and cheif Dragging canoe..and it's pretty well documented in our family and i also have some native American and Scottish and welsh and other cultures on my mom's side..
but very interesting documentary and I didn't realize y'all had a Red River..in Canada..only one i was aware of was the one in Oklahoma.tbh
but this has been an interesting and informative documentary .. please excuse my lack of punctuation my eyesights isn't the best and take care and God bless 😊
Oh God a Yank claiming their hertiage that you haven't a single clue about, the rest of us laugh at you when you claim you're *X*
I'm Métis
Riel is not at all a father of the canadian federation as they say in this vidoe. You should not say: méti,,, It is Métis. You have to pronounce the s at the end. The european part of the metis were overwelmingly from frenc canadian origin. And it is important to realise that they were also catholics.
Few had little use for the Church or the French Gov: at the time the church taxed them severely and if they didn't pay they usually ended up working in the hold of a ship, so they became Courier De Bois.
@@jean.lucier8189 ... You mixed a couple of things here. No need to tell me here how the church was bad: because this is not the subjct of the video. he fact is that the catholic church took side with the metis and that the metis embrace catholicism.
Metis are very disadvantaged but they were generally better off on the racial hierarchy compared to Inuits who in turn were more well off then First Nations yeah.
thats not true at all read some actual Métis bios and the racism they faced, lmao "better off" yeah right
The first great European cities in the continent..... Mexico city was a true city when all those cities were mere villages or less.
The church sold out the Métis, and our first PM created the residential schools.
In school they won't tell u this
They did in mine... Maudit, tabernacle.
@@karldubhe8619 nice lol bc here everything is a lie , everything I know in history I did not learn at school, too many lies and manipulation
Yes they do I learned this in History class in the 1980s.
This comment reminds me of what we hear in the US, that we aren't taught about slavery, Jim crow & civil rights. I started learning about them in elementary school in the early 80s.
@@lisapop5219 In the US it really depends on the state and school district, and sometimes the teacher. I learned a lot in elementary/middle school in the ‘00s that other people my age didn’t learn at their schools. My family moved to different states twice when I was growing up, and the amount kids had been taught about these things in the new place was lower both times. (Florida to Kansas to Utah).
Plus my parents could afford to buy a house in the boundaries for the best school districts and schools in the area. My dad would just commute to work from wherever that was.
Ffs when u find out ur family fought for canada and not the metis
Antz-that-crawls-on-the-ground ~~ El_Choctaw_lord_de_Mexico_y_Aztlan
I live in Southern Alberta, and my Scottish Great-Grandfather Haight married a Cree woman - it was not uncommon. Sadly, the track record of the Canadian Government with First Nations and Metis people has not improved greatly. How racist can it be in Canada? I laughed when I saw the posers going to "BLM" protests here - jumping on the bandwagon. Anti-black racism is not a huge part of Canadian history - nothing like what Asians and the Irish experienced, for example. All those communities have had a chance to heal, move on and become part of Modern Canada. Not so for the First Nations and Metis.
The government here has a looooooong history of saying one thing and doing another. The Department of Indian affairs and the Treaty System have never worked and should be abolished. Let the Native People's of Canada negotiate a relationship with the rest of this nation now - today - in the modern world. Until we do that, all the posing politicians and apologies and talk will do nothing, and further generations will be trapped in a cycle they cannot escape on their own.
Unh. I think you had the two episodes in the wrong order? And, nice job narrating…but…you said Riel was a hero? It doesn’t sound like he was a hero. His well intentioned but fatal decisions to retreat and hold off moving forward caused many deaths for Métis. Very sad imo
The circonstances were very much against him. So be careful before judging what he did.
so we should have stood by while a corrupt Gov: sold out the Métis home land and its people to racist foreigners,
idk get it0-0
They did occupied this land from others. You are missing this important point.
They became Métis by integrating with the local aboriginal people's, my Métis connection comes from the 1700's he married a Métis women as most most trappers did.
lmao the title is dumb. We're not defined by mixing nor was it a rebellion.
Les maudi anglais
The British and the Canadians were colonizers, too.
Lol so dramatic
in the Hispanic Realm of the Americas, these are Mestizo peoples. Just the Anglo Saxon/Celtic version of it for the English realms
EVERYONE IS INDIGENOUS TO EARTH.
True but negroid people aren't Indigenous to anywhere on earth.
Correct, all living things are part of the earth
The many sins of the white man against the Native & Indigenous peoples are beyond unforgivable.
Not a single predominantly white nation has slavery. You can't say that about any other race. We also banned slavery before anyone else. Are you even aware of the Islamic slave trade or the genocide of whites in South Africa? Do you know jack shit about how imperialist white nations brought so many non-white nations out of poverty?
They married and had families together you duuf. Bet you’re college educated. Hahah
Everyone is indigenous.
@@darlalove LOL. Modern "education" is pure cancer.
Of these white men* Fixed that for you, even though you want to generalize.
Nice virtue signaling lately.
what or who is virtue signaling?
Are you kidding me? All people are indigenous to somewhere. We all come from tribes 😂
Louis Riel, is a traitor to the crown !
And, he was executed as such )
His statue still stands by manitobas legislature whereas queen victorias was ripped apart and pulled down right out front. The quebecois legislators are exempted from swearing allegiance to the crown, and many folks here are talking about what to rename Victoria Day, given the colonial past/present. There needs to be real repair and reconciliation including the saxe-koberg-Gothe family and Canadian settler/immigrant people in undoing and renegotiating the relationship. One by one countries are cutting ties with the British monarchy as a damaging and needless institution. There are dozens of sound recommendations already out there, which will be beneficial for most manitobans if acted upon.
Yes he was and proud of it, your crown that tried to indenture and enslave most of the free world and finally slowly is dying out.
You're either Indigenous or you're not .
What do u mean?
This kind of world view means that there is no such thing as indigenous, except the most inbred people on the planet who have most likely di ed out and even they originally came from Africa if we go back far enough.
Everyone is indigenous. We live one small planet.
@@Patrick3183 everyone has indigenous blood to their native lands, yes, but not everyone is N. America indigenous, the subject at hand.
@@cielonehellofaservicedog4648 I always thought i was a weird mix being Scotch and native... i found this cool.
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