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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION Métis leader must be exonerated: MP OTTAWA -- One-hundred-and-twenty-five years ago, Louis Riel was executed for treason. Manitoba NDP MP Pat Martin wants the current government to set the record straight.

When Joseph Boyden read a National Post op-ed in July entitled "Louis Riel Deserves No Pardon," the author of Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, the latest in Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadians series, fired off a letter (it was never published) to the newspaper about what he says were "untrue and blatantly false" statements in the piece.

Appendix Social Studies 30 Riel Resources Resources Used for This Dialectic Activity Globe & Mail, May 23 / 98, "Father or Fanatic" Star Phoenix, May 30 /98, "Riel's Rebellion" Siggins (Affirmative) Flanagan (Negative) Our Canada, "Historians Debate" Star Phoenix, June 28 / 98, "Riel deserves better..." Star Phoenix, Aug.

from the CBC production Canada a People's History

Growing frustration By the early 1880s, prairie residents including white settlers, Métis, and Plains Indians were convinced of the neglect of a distant and imperial Ottawa. The Métis (mixed blood offspring of fur traders and natives) of the Saskatchewan Valley had petitioned Ottawa for years for legal claim to their land.

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