In which we discuss the events, immediate impact and aftermath of one of the most famous trials in Canadian history.

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Further Reading:

• Archibald-Barber, Jesse. “A Poetics of Place and Apocalypse: Conflict and Contradiction in Poetry of the Red River and Northwest Resistances.” Indigenous Poetics in Canada. Ed. Neal Mcleod. Wilfred Laurier Press, 2013.
• Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
• “Final Statement of Louis Riel at his Trial in Regina”. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/rieltrialstatement.html
• Machar, Agnes Maule. “Quebec to Ontario: A Plea for the Life of Riel, September, 1885.” Lays of the "True North": And Other Canadian Poems, 1902. https://archive.org/details/laystruenorthan01machgoog/page/n50/mode/2up?view=theater
• Macleod, R. C. “North-West Rebellion.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Riel, Louis. Poems Written in Prison. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_written_in_jail
• Teillet, Jean. The North-West Is Our Mother, Patrick Crean Editions, 2019.