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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on the Metis, ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [A Partly French/Indian ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [Tribe in the 1800s ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 12/94 # of Words:538 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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The Metis Mon April 5, 92
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The Metis were partly french and partly indian. Their leader was called
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Louis riel.
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Following the Union of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company
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in 1821, trading had been reorganized in order to reduce expenses. Since
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there was no longer competition in the fur trade, it was unnecessary to
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have two or more posts serving a single trading district. For this reason,
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some posts had been closed and the number of brigades reduced. This
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reorganization had led to some unemployment amoung Metis who for years had
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been working in the fur trade. The Hudson Bay Company had attempted to
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assist these these men by encouraging them to engage in farming in what is
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now South Manitoba. A few families take to agriculture, but most of the
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metis found it difficult. To them, the excitement and the adventure of the
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buffalo hunt held more appeal than farming. Hundreds of Metis were content
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to earn a living by hunting buffalo, making pemmican or finding employment
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as freight drivers.
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After a while Canada bought Rupertsland from Hudson Bay Company. When the
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Metis herd this they were alarmed. They feared their religion,their
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language, their lands and their old, free way of* life. They had known for
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some time that Canada was busy constructing a colonists highway from Lake
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Superior to the Red River. The situation became tense surveyors were sent
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into the flow of settlers, and it was considered a wise move to have the
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surveying well under way before settlement began in earnest. It was
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decided to use a system or land survey similar to that used in the western
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part of the United States. Townships were to be divided into thirty- six
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sections, each containing one square mile or 640 acres. The sections were
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then to be divided into, the quarter-section was thought to be enough land
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for each family settling in the North West. (An interesting aspect of the
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survey system was the plan of the setting asside two sections in each
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township for the future support of education. The idea to sell these
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sections at a later date and use the money for the construction of
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schools.) When th survey began, friction occured in those areas where the
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french specking Metis had settled along the river, occupying long narrow
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strips in the manner common in New France. Attempts were made by the
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surveyors to avoid disturbing the pattern, but in some cases the survey
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lines crossed the narrow holdings, leading the Metis to believe the their
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land was being taken away from them.
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Louis Riel Mon April 5, 92
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Louis Riel was the leader of the Metis. He was a black-bearded, handsome
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young man, the son of the leader of a minor Metis revolt in 1849 against
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the Hudson's Bay Company. Born in the red River region in 1944, Riel had
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been chosen as a possible candidate for the priesthood and had stidied at
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the Jesuit College de Montreal. However, he failed to complete his
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religious studies and returned to the Red River in 1868, looking for
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employment. His powers of eloquence and his hot-tempered nature soon made
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him an outspoken defenter of the Metis.
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