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Red River Rebellion
The
Red River Rebellion
(or the
Red River Resistance
,
Red River Uprising
, or
First Riel Rebellion
) was the sequence of events related to the 1869 establishment of a
provisional government
by the
Métis
leader
Louis Riel
and his followers at the
Red River Colony
, in what is now the
Canadian province
of
Manitoba
.
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