This person formed the National Metis Committee to fight for Metis rights and concerns
Who is Louis Riel?
100
Central base of operations for the HBC
What is York Factory
100
A person of Aboriginal and European descent
What is Metis?
100
Events leading up to the Metis attempt to achieve recognition of their rights and self-government
What is the Red River Resistance?
100
A temporary government
What is a provisional government?
200
A Scottish Lord who wanted to help resettle poor Scottish farmers in the Red River Valley
Who is Lord Selkirk (Thomas Douglas)?
200
The name of all the land in the Hudson Bay drainage basin
What is Rupert's Land?
200
To carry boats and goods around dangerous parts of a river
What is portage?
200
Robert Semple and 48 of his men were slaughtered by a Metis party
What is the Battle of Seven Oaks
200
The right to form a government or country
What are sovereign rights?
300
Led his men from Fort Douglas to be "slaughtered" by the Metis
Who is Robert Semple?
300
The fort where Louis Riel confined John Shutlz and 48 of his supporters
What is Fort Gary?
300
A discussion under truce to discuss peaceful alternatives to battle
What is parlay?
300
The ban of the sale of pemmican for one year, issued in January 1814
What is the Pemmican Proclamation?
300
This document that outlined grievances of the Metis and others in the North-West Territories
What is the Metis Bill of Rights?
400
Ex British Militia officer who Issued the Pemmican Proclammation
Who is Miles Macdonnell
400
Fort located just south of modern day US border where Macdonnell and other settlers had to spend their first winter after arriving in the Red River Valley
What is Fort Pembina
400
Someone hired to transport goods by canoe from one trading post to another
What is a voyageur?
400
Marked the end of the threat of war between the Metis and the Canadian party
What is the execution of Thomas Scott?
400
The HBC policy of waiting for traders to brings furs to their posts
What is the "stay by the bay" policy?
500
First acknowledged leader of the Metis who was involved in the Battle of Seven Oaks
Who is Cuthbert Grant?
500
Fort from which Robert Semple and 48 of his men rode out to confront Metis before Battle of Seven Oaks
What is Fort Douglas?
500
An agent who conducts business on someone's behalf
What is a factor?
500
The English translation of the French phrase " Le commerce est libre! Vive le liberte!", chanted by the Metis outside the court room after trial of Guillaume Sayer