The North-West Resistance (or North-West Rebellion) was a violent, five-month insurgency against the Canadian government, fought mainly by Métis and their First Nations allies in what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta. It was caused by rising fear and insecurity among the Métis and First Nations peoples as well as the white settlers of the rapidly changing West. A series of battles and other outbreaks of violence in 1885 left hundreds of people dead, but the resisters were eventually defeated by federal troops. The result was the permanent enforcement of Canadian law in the West, the subjugation of Plains Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the conviction and hanging of Louis Riel.
Beal, Bob and Rod Macleod. "North-West Resistance". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 08 July 2021, Historica Canada.
Gabriel Dumont and Louis Riel
Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker) and Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear)
