Was the Red River Rebellion a resistance or a rebellion?

Answer 1

the HBC sold Rupert's land without telling them and land speculators and surveyors came laying out square townships without any regard for their traditional strip farming method.

Land speculators raised tensions and the Metis List of Rights was ignored. They also thought Canadian government wanted to take away their land.

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Answer 2

The Red River REBELLION was a rebellion of the Canadian métis people and the british colonies.

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It "was" a resistance to colonisation by Canada. The Red River Colony was not part of Canada which made it impossible for it to be a rebellion until after Canada took control.

The Red River Colony was a British Colony with a Governor, and many land owning settlers. Since the British did not take any action against those in the colony they were not rebelling against Britain. Far from it, many would have preferred to remain a British colony.

Since they were fighting against Canadian forces they were resisting domination by a new Confederation not the old mother country. Because they lost that fight Canada gets to call it a rebellion.

It was a resistance but today is called a rebellion by Canada. Just as revolutionaries are rebels until they win, those defending against invasion are resistance fighters until they lose at which point the winners will likely use a different term to advance their own history.

Answer 3

It started with Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land complete with people, including those in the Red River Colony. Canada took the position that the land had no or few people on it and the few that were there were very happy that Canada had bought them.

Because Canada thought and acted as if the land was empty or only had people happy to be taken over by Canada they delayed sending in people to set up negotiations.

Riel set up a provisional government to represent Red River Colony, hoping to get equal rights and status within Confederation. The provisional government had to deal with some people in the area who were very anti-catholic and very pro-Canadian. These people fought the new government and were arrested some were sentenced to death. This was the right of any government of the day. Most had their sentences reduced or commuted but one Thomas Scott made that difficult and he was executed.

For many that is the start of the rebellion.

Answer 4

The red river rebellion was important to the metis because they were loosing land. It was important to John. A. because if he did not split up the land he would have less population, and if he separated the land he would have a greater population. It was important to Riel because he had to help the metis he was the leader of them.

Answer 5

Canada's colonization with out consultation. Of course the history of the Red River colony played at role, as did language and religion but basically it was Canada moving in and taking over as though no one lived in Western Canada.

Answer 6

One of the first of many violent and failed attempts to get fair representation in the Canadian system by those taken over by Canada when Canada purchased Ruperts Land.

Answer 7

• protect the rights of the Metis
• gain rights for when the settelment is annexed into Canada.

Answer 8

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