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Act for the Better Security of the Crown and Government of 1868
Act for the Temporary Government of Rupert’s Land and the North-western Territory When United with Canada of 1869
address to court amnesty, question of; analysis of; concluding remarks; exile of Riel; immigration; Manitoba Act not fulfilled; mission from God; objective of; preface to; rhetorical analysis; service and compensation; “seventh,”; structured nature of; verdict, reaction to. See also trial speeches
address to jury; allusion; arms and self-defence; on character; communion with audience; conclusions of; contending positions, stasis analysis; court and government, criticism of; defence lawyers; defence of character; defence of necessity; defence on merits; factors affecting; impact of; ineffectiveness of; last remarks; logical order; mission from God; narrative order; North-West Rebellion (1885); objective of; opening remarks; opinions on; personal grievances; political actions, reasons for; preface to; prophetic abilities; representation of responsibility; rhetorical analysis; rhetorical situation; rhetorical strategies; various remarks. See also arguments (address to jury); insanity defence; trial speeches
American expansionism
amnesty; for execution of Scott; Manitoba Act and
André, Father Alexis; kindness to Riel’s family; quarrel with Riel; relationship with Riel
Anishinabek; prophecies; Prophecy of the Seven Fires; Seven Grandfather Teachings
Apology (Plato)
Archibald, Governor Adams George
arguments (address to jury); argument from action; argument from authority; argument from sign; ethotic argument; insane-government argument; jurisdiction argument; justice argument; justification argument; logical order; narrative order; narrative vs logical order; no-treason argument; proceedings argument; rhetorical strategies; sanity argument; self-defence argument; substantive argument, reconstructing; sympathy argument
Aristotle: ethos; Rhetoric
asylums; Riel’s confinement to; Riel’s fear of
Batoche, Battle of; defeat at; prisoners
Batoche, Saskatchewan; Natives, relations with; Riel as prophet, recognition of; Riel’s return to
Battleford
Beauport Asylum
Big Bear
Bill of Rights
Blake, Edward
Blavatsky, Madame
Bourget, Archbishop Ignace; as pope, proposal for; Riel’s holy mission
Boyden, Joseph; foresight of Riel; Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont
British Columbia British Constitution; Riel’s reliance on
British North America Act of 1867; province vs territory; provincial control of resources; public domain, ownership of
British North America Act of 1930
Brown, George
Bruyneel, Kevin, Exiled, Executed, Exalted
Bumsted, J.M.; address to jury; “Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason,”; defence lawyers; Guiteau case; spirituality of Riel; unfairness of trial
Busby, Brian, Great Canadian Speeches: Words That Shaped a Nation
Canada: colonialism in; expansionist movement; Manitoba and Confederation; natural resources, control of; North-western Territory and Rupert’s Land, acquisition of. See also Confederation
Canadian Constitution
Canadian government. See Government of Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Parliament; British North America Act; governance of North–west and Rupert’s Land
Cartier, George-Etienne; defeat of; as delegate to Red River; List of Rights, displeasure with
Catholic Church; and Indigenous populations; influence on Riel; reform of, Riel’s vision of
Cave, Alfred A., Prophets of the Great Spirit
Charles II
Clergy Endowments (Canada) Act of 1791
Collins, Joseph Edmund, The Story of Louis Riel the Rebel Chief
colonialism: in Canada; impact of
Confederation; defined; Manitoba’s entry into; province vs territory; public domain, control over; Riel’s ideas of
Confederation Act
Connor, Ralph, Patrol of the Sundance Trail
Conselheiro, Antônio
Conservative Party
Constitution Act of 1791
Cooper, Frederick, Colonialism in Question
Cree
Crozier, Superintendent Lief
Day, David, Visions and Revelations of St. Louis the Métis
Deane, Captain Richard Burton; letters to; as lieutenant governor, Riel’s proposal; Riel’s confinement under
Declaration Which Offences Shall Be Adjudged Treason of 1351, A
defence lawyers: ethical and professional issues; members of team; merits of case, refusal to defend; refusal to let Riel speak; Riel’s cause, acknowledgment of; Riel’s frustration with. See also insanity defence
defence of necessity
defence speeches, genre of
différend
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dubuc, Joseph
Duck Lake, Battle of
Dumont, Gabriel
Durham Report
Edward III
Epitome of Parliamentary Documents in Connection with the North-West Rebellion, 1885
ethos
ethotic argument
exovede
expansionist movement
Fenian Act of 1866
Fenian Act of 1867
Fenian invasion of Manitoba (1871)
Fenians
First Nations; confederacies; extinguishment of Indian title; and Métis, relations with; prophetic traditions of; Riel and. See also Natives
Fiset, Jean-Baptiste Romuald
Fish Creek, Battle of
Fitzpatrick, Charles; appeal to jury; insanity defence; political future; on Riel’s cause. See also defence lawyers
Flanagan, Thomas; address to jury; Aristotelian analysis of speeches; The Collected Writings of Louis Riel, volume 3, 1884–1885; criticism of Macdonald; on fairness of trial; on legitimacy of government actions; Louis ‘David’ Riel: Prophet of the New World; Louis Riel’s Religious Beliefs: A Letter to Bishop Taché; Métis rights and Riel; religious delusions of Riel; religious influences on Riel
Fort Garry
Fourmond, Father Vital; kindness to Riel’s family
Frog Lake
Garfield, James
geopolitical legitimacy
Ghost Dance
Gladstone, William
Globe
Glorious Revolution of 1688–89
government, responsible. See responsible government
Government of Canada: delegation to Red River; financial incentives offered to Riel; “insane and irresponsible,”; legal strategy of 1885; manipulation of trial; North-West, acquisition of; petitions to; refusal to negotiate; Riel’s personal grievances against; sovereignty in North-West. See also Macdonald, Sir John A.
Granville, Lord
Great Law of Peace
Great Peace of 1701
Greenshields, James
Gruending, Dennis, Great Canadian Speeches
Guiteau, Daniel
“half-breeds,”
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
House of Commons
Hudson’s Bay Company: financial compensation of; and North-West Rebellion (1885); Rupert’s Land, monopoly of; sale of Rupert’s Land
immigration: American, threat of; Riel’s vision, in North-West
Indians. See Natives
insanity defence; ethics of; lawyers’ arguments; M’Naghten Rules; in nineteenth-century law; Riel’s denial to speak; Riel’s rejection of; ruling on; tactical nature of
Interior Salish
Iroquois League of Nations
Irvine, Major Acheson Gosford
Jackson, W.H.
Jukes, Andrew
jury; composition of; mercy, recommendation of; Riel’s dissatisfaction with; and Riel’s fate
Laurier, Wilfrid
Lavell, Michael
Law of Nations
lawful rebellion, doctrine of
Lawless Aggressions Act
Lemieux, François-Xavier; political future; Riel’s speech, nonaccountability for. See also defence lawyers
Lépine, Ambroise
Liberal Party of Canada
Linder, Douglas; Famous Trials website
litige
logos
Longue Point Asylum
Lyotard, Jean-François; litige vs différend; polis vs pagus; Socrates vs Protogaras
Macdonald, Sir John A.; criticism of; delegation from Red River; examination of Riel’s mental state; List of Rights, displeasure with; Manitoba Act; need for Riel’s execution; North-western Territory and Rupert’s Land, acquisition of; Red River Resistance; Riel’s petitions to; trial of Riel; view of Riel
Mackie, John, The Rising of the Red Man
Manitoba: and Confederation; Fenian invasion; List of Rights; as province vs territory; resources, control over; Riel as founding father. See also Manitoba Act of 1870
Manitoba Act of 1870; extinguishment of Indian title; Métis land rights; non-fulfilment of Métis rights; provisional government and; provisions to Métis; Riel’s views
Métis: background of; belief in Riel’s prophetic ability; contributions to Canada; culture and economy of; emigration from Red River area; as “half-breeds,”; history of; injustices suffered by; land rights; leadership of Riel; multiplicity and absence; and Natives, relations with; petitions to Ottawa; political nature of; punishment of, Riel’s prophecy; Red River delegation; Riel’s immigration vision; Riel’s return, invitation for; spiritual beliefs. See also Manitoba Act of 1870; North-West Rebellion (1885); Red River Uprising (1869–70)
Middleton, General Frederick D.; North-West Rebellion (1885); promise of fair hearing; on Riel’s character; on Riel’s sanity; surrender of Riel
M’Naghten case (1843)
M’Naghten Rules
Morton, Desmond; The Queen v Louis Riel; Riel’s first speech
National Policy
Natives: Battleford, invasion of; beliefs, influence on Riel; injustices suffered by; and Métis, relations with; prosecution of. See also First Nations
“natural allegiance,” principle of
natural resources, control of
Ness, George
New Nation
Nietzsche, Frederick
Nishinaabeg
Nolin, Charles; denial of Riel to question; Riel’s prophetic ability; testimony against Riel
North-West Council
North-West Mounted Police (NWMP)
North-West Rebellion (1885); Battle of Batoche; Canada’s legal strategy; charges laid; contending positions, analysis of; cynical view of; defeat of; Frog Lake; hostages; justification for; in literature; origins of; personal motivations of Riel; Red River Uprising (1869–70) and; self–defence; support for Riel; white rebels
North-West Territories Act of 1875
North-western Territory: immigration, Riel’s vision of; irresponsibility of government; legal system of; as pagus; sovereignty over; transfer of, to Canada; as trial venue
Olbrechts-Tyteca, Lucie, New Rhetoric
Ontario: compared to North-West; execution of Scott, reaction to; persecution of Riel; proclamation for Riel’s arrest; Protestants, power of. See also Upper Canada
Orange Order; hatred of Riel; Scott, execution of; Scott, as martyr
Osler, Britton Bath; crime, description of; legitimacy of trial; white rebels, search for
pagus vs polis
Paiute
pathos
Peel, Sir Robert
Perelman, Chaim, New Rhetoric
Pitblado, Charles Bruce
Plains Indians
Plato; Apology; Crito; Euthyphro; trial of Socrates
Poundmaker
Prickert, Corporal
Primeau, Father Jean Baptiste
Prince Edward Island
Prophecy of the Seven Fires
Protagoras
Protestants: dominance in North-West; favouritism of; influence on Riel; land endowments of clergy; in “New World,”; in Riel’s jury
provinces: constitutional inequality among; resources, control over; and territories, constitutional differences
provisional government (1869)
provisional government (1885): arrest of members; Bill of Rights; formation of; List of Rights; members of; Red River delegation
Queen v Louis Riel (1886)
Queen Victoria
Rebellions of 1837 Red River (community): demographics; emigration from; rights of
Red River Uprising (1869–70); Bills of Rights; execution of Scott; and North-West Rebellion (1885); origins of
Reid, Jennifer, “Faire Place á une Race Métisse,”
responsible government: development of, in Canada; “insane and irresponsible,”; meaning of; public domain, control over; in trial speeches, reference to
Revolutionary Bill of Rights of 1885
Richardson, Judge Hugh; address to jury; background of; immovability of; insanity defence; on jurisdiction
Riel, Louis: accomplishments of; American citizenship; on American immigration, threat of; amnesty; ancestry; arrest of; asylums; Canadian confederation, vision of; character of; charges against; colonialism in Canada, critique of; compensation to abandon cause; complexity of; constitutional thought; différend; education of, 107; English-speaking skills; execution of; exile of; extinguishment of Indian title; family, hardships of; as founding father of Manitoba; geopolitical legitimacy; grievances against government; hardships suffered by; helplessness of; historical transformation of; immigration in North-West, vision of; imprisonment of; Indigenous influence on; insane-irresponsible government; insanity of; issues related to; on Jews; justification for actions; King David, identification with; land rights; Law of Nations; List of Rights; in literature and writings; Macdonald’s opinion of; megalomania of; as Métis Robespierre; mission from God; Montana, life in; and Natives, relations with; “New World,”; Ontario’s persecution of; origin of nations; petitions to Ottawa; political accomplishments; political justice, search for; as political reformer; politico-spiritual vision for Métis; poverty of; progressiveness of; prophetic abilities; Red River delegation; religious beliefs; and responsibility; return to Canada; Scott, execution of; self-defence; the “seventh,”; and Socrates, comparison to; as spokesperson for Métis; stereotyping of; surrender of. See also North-West Rebellion (1885); Red River Uprising (1869–70); trial of Riel; trial speeches
Ritchot, Abbé Noël-Joseph
Robinson, Christopher; legitimacy of trial venue; white rebels, search for
Rouleau, Judge Charles A.
Rupert’s Land: Canada’s acquisition of; Hudson’s Bay Company, initial acquisition of
Rupert’s Land Act of 1868
St Laurent petition of 1884
Salamis, Leon of
Saul, John Ralston, A Fair Country
Scott, Thomas, execution of; consequences of; justification for; Orange Order, response of
“seventh,”
Siggins, Maggie
Simpson, Leanne: Dancing on our Turtle’s Back; “Oshkimaadiziig, the New People,”
Sioux Indians
Socrates: in Apology; in Crito; Phaedo
Socrates vs Riel; calling from on high; conviction; defence of necessity; mental states of; outsider vs insider; overview; poverty, virtuous; textual sources; trial speeches; value of truth over life
South Saskatchewan River
speeches of Riel. See trial speeches
Sprague, D.N., Canada and the Métis
Stanley, George F.G.; address to court, impact of; address to jury; Bill of Rights; The Birth of Western Canada; The Collected Writings of Louis Riel; complexity of Riel; “The Last Word on Louis Riel,”; Louis Riel
Statute of Treasons of 1352
Supreme Court of Canada; legal mandate of; Métis land rights; as Riel’s proposed venue for trial
Swedenborg, Immanuel
Taché, Archbishop Alexandre-Antonin; as pacifist of North-West; petitions Riel to depart; prophetic visions of Riel
Toronto Board of Trade
treason charges
trial of Riel: controversy surrounding; debatable issues; defence lawyers; dilemma of Riel; ethical and professional issues; ethos; government’s manipulation of; jury; language issues; litige vs différend; M’Naghten Rules, ; polis vs pagus; prosecution; Riel’s preparation for; vs Socrates; unfairness of; venue. See also address to court; address to jury; insanity defence
trial speeches; ethos; importance of; ineffectiveness of; preparatory thoughts; rhetorical analysis; rhetorical situation; Socrates vs Riel; textual sources; versions of. See also address to court; address to jury
United States: American expansionism; Canada’s fear of immigration from; exile of Riel; Ottawa, encouragement to; persecution of Riel in; Riel’s citizenship; Riel’s emigration to; support for Riel’s cause
United States Supreme Court
Upper Canada; expansion into North-West. See also Ontario
Valade, François-Xavier
Vitoria, Francisco de
Warwaruk, Larry, Sundog Highway
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolseley, General Garnet Joseph
Wovoka