<P> The Red River Resistance ( or the Red River Rebellion , Red River uprising , or First Riel Rebellion ) was the sequence of events that led 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 led 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 red river rebellion
who led the metis in the red river rebellion
Louis Riel
Louis Riel