1. The Red River Resistance and the Second Metis Uprising
Social Studies 7
Chapter 9

2. The Red River Resistance
-Red River was located within Rupert’s Land
-Francophone Métis, Anglophone Metis, Canadiens, retired HBC employees, Scottish and Irish colonists lived here for the fertile soil.
-in April 1869, the HBC, Britain, and Canada agreed to transfer Rupert’s Land to Canada by that December.
-During these months, Canadian surveyors measured the land into sections for settlements, with little regard for the people living there.
-this would push the fur trade, Métis farms, and way of life off the land,

3. The Red River Resistance
-The Métis grew upset. William McDougall (Canadian appointed lieutenant-governor of the territory) was stopped at a Métis formed blockade.
-the Métis then took control of Fort Gary (major HBC trading post).
-that December, the Métis declared a provisional government (temporary government) with Lois Riel voted as their President.
-this provisional government created the Declaration of the People of Rupert’s Land and the North-West.
-Ended with the negotiation of the Manitoba Act

4. The Second Metis Uprising
-Many Métis people moved from Red River to South Branch where they continued farming and working in the fur trade, supplying Fort Carleton and Fort Edmonton. They also continued with the annual buffalo hunt.
-the people who settled in South Branch knew they would eventually face the same issues that happened in Red River. What were those issues?
-buffalo population declined
-settlers moved west
-Canada set up a police force for the area
-NorthWest Mounted Police
-Canada planned to build the railway right over their land as if they never lived there.
-Government surveyors continued to zone the land regardless of the people living there

5. The Second Metis Uprising
-the Métis petitioned the Canadian government over and over again, but the government was “deaf” to the requests of the Métis, Cree, or Blackfoot Confederacy.
-in 1884, Gabriel Dumont (leader) went to seek the help of Lois Riel (who had moved to Montana)
-Lois Riel and his family left Montana and moved to South Branch, and began talks about what the Francophone, Anglophone, Métis and other settlers wanted. He suggested that everyone should work together.

6. The Second Metis Uprising
-the settlers had heard the federal government sent troops against them. In response, the settlers set up a provisional government at Batouche and decided to fight back against the Canadian troops.
-many Anglophone Métis and white settlers voted to stay neutral. Two Cree leaders supported the provisional government in hopes it would make Canada pay more attention to their needs.