Canadian History/Red River Rebellion  The events in Canadian
History that the Métis peoples are most associated with is The
Red River Rebellion. The Red River Rebellion (or Red River
Resistance) refers to the events triggered by the provisional
government formed by the Métis people of the Red River Colony
(which is now Manitoba) in 1869-1870. The leader of the
provisional government was a Métis man named Louis Riel.  The
Red River SettlementEdit  The Métis already had their own
community set up at the junction of the two rivers, the Red and
the Assiniboin. This was probably because they could have access
to the waterways and canoe to places to trade. Some of the best
prairie soils were there so they lived comfortably with crops
and the buffalo hunt to sustain them through the winter, and
because of their French background, they laid out their farms in
seigneurial pattern, i.e. long narrow plots with one end on the
river. Pemmican played a huge part in their lives because they
ate it in the winter and while tr