Contents

Prologue: The Chain

Part One: Flint and Steel

1 Son of a Métis Hero

2 Into the World

3 Who Will Lead Our People?

Part Two: Blaze

4 Loyal Subject of Her Majesty

5 Resistance

6 Father of a Province

Part Three: Embers

7 Dispossessed and Exiled

8 Prophet of the New World

9 Wanderer

Part Four: Wildfire

10 Uprising

11 Trials

Epilogue: The Legacy

Chronology of
Louis Riel (1844-1885)

Sources Consulted

Index