The rebellion however resulted to no serious bloodshed apart from the provisional government executing Thomas Scott, a wild prisoner…Riel fled for his life and settled in New England where he got convicted into Catholicism. Riel organized the people in what was referred to as the Triple R-“the Red River Rebellion” (Flanagan, p.46). That was the time when Riel showed his leadership skills and the ability to move people he gathered massive support to bar the Canadians from invading the settlement. Studied laws in Montreal and returned to his ancestral home after his education at the time when Canada was about to launch an invasion on Rupert’s Land and take it under their colony…this move got the Metis people worried because they feared that Canadians would soon move to take over their land too, “the Metis therefore organized themselves into a “solid” group to offer resistance to the Canadian invasion” (Flanagan, p.45). Riel was born in Manitoba the ancient Red River Colony to a French mother and a Metis leader. Anti-Thesis Statement: Critics who did not believe in his principles saw him as a mad traitor with completely misguided zeal who resorted to violence for no cause…a symbol of shame to the dynamic world.
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