<P> The Red River Resistance ( or the Red River Rebellion , Red River uprising , or First Riel Rebellion ) was the sequence of events that lead up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony , in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba . For a period it had been a territory called Rupert 's Land under control of the Hudson 's Bay Company . </P>
<P> The Red River Resistance ( or the Red River Rebellion , Red River uprising , or First Riel Rebellion ) was the sequence of events that lead up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony , in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba . For a period it had been a territory called Rupert 's Land under control of the Hudson 's Bay Company . </P>
who led the metis in the rebellions at red river in 1870 and in the northwest in 1885
who led the metis in the rebellions at red river in 1870 and in the northwest in 1885
Louis Riel
Louis Riel