Strange empire : Louis Riel and the Métis people
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0888620594
ISBN 13
9780888620590
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1974
Publisher
James Lewis & Samuel, Canada
Pages
601
Subject
Louis Riel -- 1844-1885
Abstract
"Strange Empire is both a biography of Louis Riel and the story of the Métis people in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Joseph Howard skillfully weaves together the events of Riel's life with the brief emergence of the Métis nation.
Howard's sympathies lie with the Métis as he describes the clumsy but single-minded and devious crushing of the provisional government in Manitoba in 1870 by John A. Macdonald and his cabinet. Howard shows how the political outcome of that struggle literally drove Riel crazy as he drifted from place to place in exile in the U.S. Then there is Riel's final effort in 1885, when he agreed to help the Saskatchewan Métis and the white settlers resist the exploitation and dispossession threatened by the speculators, politicians and developers who followed the CPR as it pushed out across the continent."--Back cover.
Howard's sympathies lie with the Métis as he describes the clumsy but single-minded and devious crushing of the provisional government in Manitoba in 1870 by John A. Macdonald and his cabinet. Howard shows how the political outcome of that struggle literally drove Riel crazy as he drifted from place to place in exile in the U.S. Then there is Riel's final effort in 1885, when he agreed to help the Saskatchewan Métis and the white settlers resist the exploitation and dispossession threatened by the speculators, politicians and developers who followed the CPR as it pushed out across the continent."--Back cover.
Description
601 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Number of Copies
1
