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Louis Riel  is a hero he did what was right at a good cost the true demon in this story is JOHN .A. MACDONALD he does not diserve to be on the the 10 dollar bill louis riel was the true hero of their time...

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Louis Riel just wanted everybody and to be treated with the same amount of respect and freedom,espically the Metis who wearn't getting the respect they needed and deserved.

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louis riel just wanted everywhone to be treat eachother the same

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Louis Riel never killed any one other than Thomas Scott. Riel killed Thomas because he crossed the border without permission and was extremely racist and violent to Riel and the Metis, trying to make sure they are left with no land because of where they were from. For everyone who is saying that he killed more people, why are you not able to name who they were?

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Louis Riel just wanted everybody to be treated equally and for the Metis to keep what they owned. He just wanted Canada to be a fair,and well put together country and for freedom. While battles were going on,he WASN'T just sitting back,he was PRAYING for freedom and making the choice of NOT being violent and KILLING tons of human beings. He tried working all the problems out with the government and other people,but they wouldn't listen or compromise. He just wanted Canada to be a bilingual country and a FAIR country

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Louis riel is a hero because he he faught for the metis rights

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Guys do not use Wikipedia, anyone can edit the site so information on it is probably not true!

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I believe that louis riel only wanted the best for the metis. He only wanted them to have the land, food, and homes that they needed. He fought for his people, for what the goverment wasn't giving them.

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People keep bringing up the fact that Louis Riel is a traitor because he killed Thomas Scott and many others. First, Louis Riel only killed 1 person in his whole life witch was Thomas Scott. Although,nobody deserves to die,no matter there pass,but Thomas Scott was a very cruel,violent,and racist man and was only doing the worst for Canada. He only thought about himself and stealing the Metis land and killed many innocent Metis. Lastly, Louis Riel is a great human being who has never done anything real bad in his life except the death of Thomas Scott. He was such a great person and did so much for Canada to. He does one horrible act and even feels bad about it and does what he can, and the conciquences were very big,he followed them to regain forgiveness and trust once again and to start doing the right thing and to be a kind,brave man and win back the Metis freedom when they needed him the most.

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Louis Riel didn't mean any harm he just wanted the safety for his people and himself.
Ella

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he devoted his whole life to stand up for the metis and take them seriously

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the Canadian government promised Louis and the Metis that they would get their fair share of land. The Canadian government cancelled the deal and that is why Louis was so mad

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Louis Riel is a very big part of Canadian history, some people say that he was a hero and some people say he is a traitor. He was born on October 22, 1884, he was the oldest out of 11 children. When Louis was 14, he was sent to Montreal to go to a school called the Petit Seminaire de Montreal. At this school, he studied to become a Roman Catholic Priest. People described Louis Riel as an 'intellegent and studious learner', with a knack for charming others'. People also described Louis Riel as 'moody, proud and irritable'. After his father's death, Louis decided to stop his studies at the seminary and went on to work at a law office.

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Louis is a hero because he fought for his rights and help the metis get land and he got them food. Why he killed Thomas scott because he was threatening to kill Louis Riel when he gets out of prison that Louis Riel put him in. For trying to kill his men. The battle of  Batoche that battle was for land for the metis but the canadian army they had more they had cannons better guns but there where surrounded the canadian army killed so much  metis the rest surrendered the matis who where invalid with the wars or louis riel were kill the rest where put in prison  Mateo

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Louis is a hero because he fought for his rights and help the metis get land and he got them food. Why he killed Thomas scott because he was threatening to kill Louis Riel when he gets out of prison that Louis Riel put him in. For trying to kill his men. The battle of  Batoche that battle was for land for the metis but the canadian army they had more they had cannons better guns but there where surrounded the canadian army killed so much  metis the rest surrendered the matis who where invalid with the wars or louis riel were kill the rest where put in prison  Mateo

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Louis riel did not want to offend other canadians, he wanted everyone to be treated equally

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he fighted in war for saving his country and not far anything else

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Louis Riel was born in the red river colony, he was apart of the metis people. when he got older he started to stand up for the metis people and he took leadership .

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Louis Riel is seen as a founder of Manitoba, so if he didn't do what he did, Manitoba might not be an existing province in Canada.

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Louis riel did in fact killed Thomas scott but Thomas was against the metis, so as you could imagine Louis riel was scared he would lose

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Louis Riel is a goodman he fought for what he believed in and died believing if any thing in this bit of history that is wrong is that the government is wrong in so many ways

the Métis had every right to defend red river against a corupt prime minister that agreed to say that they could have there own land but nnnoooo they didn't get any land settlers took there land (they should have just protected there land against the settlers and MOST OF THIS WOULDN'T OF HAPPENED)

FACT-Louis Reil is worth 500.00$$$

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Louis Riel is no traitor to Canada. Louis Riel fought to keep the Metis land and to keep Canada a fair and great country. Louis Riel was born October 22,1844 and always was a great person He did well and school and at a young mature age started fighting for the Metis rights. When war/battle went on when the HBC were trying to take over the Metis land, Louis Riel didn't want anything violent to happen and just observed and spent his time praying for freedom and safety for the Metis while the battles like Duck Lake,Fish Creek and battle of The batoche went on. He even made a commitment with the Canadian government to leave Canada for 5 years just so the Metis could have freedom and keep there land. That's leader ship,responsibility,courage and a selfless act and being a very kind/gracious person. Louis Riel only wanted to help others and never thought about him self. He fought against the cruel,racist people who wanted what was worse for the country.

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When Louis Riel killed\"Murder" Thomas Scott, the Canadian Goverment said "Ok will forget about what had happend as long as you dont do it again" to the Metis but for Louis,he had to leave Canada for 5 years and then he could return.When he had left he went to USA and became mentally unstable so decided to move in with his uncle.Hes uncle could not coup with him so he was sent to Montreal to attend a asslyum.He had stayed there for 2 and a half years and then became better.He then married a 20 year old women that happend to be Metis,Then they had 2 children and then he left them becuase they Metis were having trouble.

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riel went through a lot of legal claim and  the government didn't know that the metis were aloud to be in the area that they where in

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Louis Riel didn't kill more than one person. He only killed Thomas Scott, who was not innocent in any way. Thomas Scott, along with many other people,  were denying the rights of the Métis and not accepting them as part of their country.

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Louis gave himself up because he thought that the Metis people would be left alone, this proves that all he wanted was human rights for the Metis people. He was hung and executed. People are saying that he was selfish because he only fought for his people (the Metis) and himself. But the reason for that is because the Metis people were the only people where he lived who were denied human rights because of where they were from. That is racism. Why would he fight for people that were racist and cruel in the way that they would not treat a Metis person the same as a person of their own. If the others welcomed the Metis in the first place, no problems would have occurred.

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-Louis sent a letter to the Canadian government saying that he wanted to negotiate and compromise.e formed an army with some armed Metis men just incase anything happened for protection and defense. One man tried to tackle the gun from a Metis and the Metis man thought that he wanted to hurt him so he shot him.The other people started shooting and the Metis army had to shoot for protection. Louis and the Metis never meant to hurt anyone

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Louis Riel was considered the 'ringleader' of the Métis. Louis Riel didn't want to start a battle or start a fight, he just wanted to talk to the government and try to establish some proper rights for the Métis. The Métis people brought their weapons and were ready to fight, just in case they absolutely needed to. One of the Métis soldiers tried to take a gun from a soldier on the other side and the other side thought that he was trying to fight. This started a fight that was never planned. Louis Riel's intentions were NOT to start a fight, he just wanted to talk to the government about the Métis rights and work some things out. Some people say that Louis Riel tried to start this fight, but he didn't. He couldn't just say 'stop' and everybody would stop, Louis Riel did not lead his people to fight, he just wanted them to have proper rights and needed to talk to the government about it.

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The Canadian government promised land to the Metis but never followed through. European settlers moved in. All Louis wanted was human rights for himself and the Metis people. None of the violence or problems would have happened if the Metis were excepted, welcomed and given human rights in the first place. Would you fight for your rights and do everything possible for them if others told you that you could not do certain things because of where you came from, something you can not help

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People were extremely racist towards the Metis people and called them names like "repulsive half breeds" Louis Riel devoted years of his life to trying to make the Metis people welcomed and excepted for who they were because Racism is a terrible thing and you can not help how you were born.

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Rachel- Louis Riel is a hero, he fought for the rights of the Metis people. He put a lot of work into this, he wanted to help the Metis people and make sure that they proper rights and they have their land. Thomas Scott and many other people were trying to take away the Metis people's land. Now a days, that would be like somebody trying to take away your house. Yes, Louis Riel did kill Thomas Scott, but that was because he was being extremely violent and threatening. Louis Riel was always just trying to defend and fight for his people and for himself. Fighting for your rights dosen't make you a bad person.

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Louis Riel was mistaken by Thomas Scott because he thought that Thomas was going to take away his privilege of being leader of the metis
Ella

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Louis Riel is a hero

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Louis Riel killed Thomas Scott for a reason because he didn't know that Thomas Scott was innocent.
Julie

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Riel was elected twice for canadian parlament  in Manitoba.
-Emma N

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-if louis riel had never found manitoba

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Louis Riel defended the rights and lands of the Metis. He wanted the Metis to be equal to everyone else in Canada.

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Louis Riel united different countries together that makes Canada the way it is today.
Julie

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Thomas Scott was a violent and boisterou man. He continually insulted the guards and threatened to kille Louis Riel if he was ever freed.
Rania & Brianna

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After the death people started to beleve in him.

- Emma.B & Tia

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Before Louis Riel died, he stopped racism against the Metis in the time period and gave them a better life by trying his hardest to fight for their rights -Stephanie

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louis riel was defending metis for a reason, so everyone could have their rights
-Mirae

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Maja After the death of Thomas Scott,people began to think that he was a "Murder" and also began to think he killed him for no reason but actually the reason was Scott insulted the guards of the prison alot and said he would shoot Riel.Then Riel sentenced him to death

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Louis Riel killed
Tomas Scott because

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Even though Louis Riel killed some people ,with out him Canada would not be that multicultural.
Julie.

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try to save  a country from Thomas and MacDonald
-Nicholas

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Louis Riel was born in 1844 in Saint Boniface in the red river settlement.
In March 1869 the HBC decided to sell Rupert's land and the North Western Territories to the Dominion of Canada.
Rania & Brianna.

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Louis Riel wasn't trying to do anything bad, in fact he was just trying to get the rights he and the metis people.
-Emma N

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Luis Riel only killed Tomas because he was afraid that Tomas would take away his rights that he earned as a Metis.
He also killed him because  he crossed the border without permission
-Evan

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Louis Riel was a hero because the death of Thomas Scott was a mistake because Louis thought Thomas Scott was going to kill him
-Josh

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I think that Louis Riel is a hero because he fought for the Metis rights and he always took a leadership role.
-Rania & Brianna