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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.

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.