The police evacuated Fort Carlton and retired to Prince Albert. Riel persuaded the his men not to pursue the retreating force, and the Métis returned to Batoche. Nine volunteers and three police members were killed, with many more injured. The battle ended shortly after, with the police and volunteers retreating to Fort Carlton. Hidden in a hollow north of the road, and in a cabin to the south. Negotiations ended in confusion and the police and volunteers fired at their enemy On the morning of 26 March 1885, a force ofĪbout 100 North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and armed citizen volunteers, moved towards Duck Lake under the command of SuperintendentĪ large group of Métis and First Nations met them on the Carlton Trail outside the village. In anticipation of police intervention of some kind - but without knowing that federal troops were coming by rail from the East - the Métis occupied the community ofĭuck Lake, midway between Batoche and Fort Carlton. Riel was named president of the provisional government, and famed Métis hunter and tactician Gabriel Dumont was installed as military commander. On 18 and 19 March, an armed force of Métis formed a provisional government, seized the parish church at Batoche, and demanded the surrender of the nearby Hudson’s Bay Company post at Fort Carlton. Including: “That the Land Department of the Dominion Government be administered as far as practicable from Winnipeg, so that the settlers may not be compelled as heretofore to go to Ottawa for the settlement of questions in dispute between them and the On 8 March 1885 the Métis passed a 10-point “Revolutionary Bill of Rights” asserting Métis rights of possession to their farms, and made other demands, In the fall of 1884, Riel prepared a petition and urged Métis and non-Métis settlers alike to sign it. Macdonald’s Conservative government, which had failed to address their grievances. Riel urged all dissatisfied people in the North-West to unite and press their case on Prime Minister Sir John A. The Red River Resistance leader, back to Canada from exile in the United States. In the summer of 1884, the Métis of Saskatchewan brought Louis Riel, Poor harvests in 18 added to their problems, along with an unsympatheticĭominion government back East. White settlers in Saskatchewan who had purchased land expecting that the Canadian Pacific Railway line would run northwest from Winnipeg to Edmonton, learned suddenly in 1882 that the CPR would go farther ![]() Title to their river-lot homesteads and farms would be guaranteed. They were also waiting, without much help from the distant federal government, for reassurance that Their old life as fur traders and carriers for the Hudson’s Bay Company was disappearing, along with the bison on which they too depended. Meanwhile the Métis people - still feeling vulnerable after their Red River uprising in ManitobaĪ decade earlier - had grievances of their own. Leading chief of the Siksika, founded a confederacy to try to solve their people’s grievances. In 1880, Cree chief Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear), and Isapo-muxika (Crowfoot), Much of their land had also been signed away in treaties, and they were now seeing towns, farm fences and railwaysĪppearing on the once expansive prairies. The great bison herds had disappeared, pushing people to near starvation. Kainai, Piikani, and Saulteaux - were facing disaster. By the late 1870s, the Plains Indigenous nations of the West - the Cree, Siksika,
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