l Essay Material) Riel did very well in Collage and decides to study law in Montreal, then from 1866 when he was 22 years old to when he was 24 years old he went off to Minnesota and any historian that ever studied him does not know that time in his life. Louis Riel returned back to his homeland St. Boniface a year later and he soon rose to be the leader of the Mtis Movement by organising it and being the secretary of the operation. That same year The Canadian House of Commons gets a temporary government for Rupert’s Land and the North- Western Territory who was William McDougall. The Mtis people who were led by Riel did not like this so they stopped Mr. William McDougall from entering the land and turned him around to go back to where he came from. A little while later at the beginning of the next year in 1870 Louis is said to have an illness called “brain fever” and he was put into mental hospital institutions for his own good, he soon got better after a few months in the mental institution. After he got out of the mental institution he approved the execution of Thomas Scott. Who was an Orangeman from Ontario and had been arrested, and then executed by the Mtis people. Riel has absolutely no legal right to have him shot, but Riel himself never touched a gun for that purpose. He had a firing squad shoot Scott for him. Even though Riel may have ordered that squad to shoot Thomas Scott, those men could have refused the task, no matter how powerful Riel seemed. That same year the Manitoba Act was passed so that meant that the Mtis people could have freedom to their own language and have representation in Parliament in the House of Commons. Riel went to the House Of Commons but was not allowed to sit as a member in the House, he was threatened to be shot by the Government soldiers, but Louis Riel was not afraid of them. In the year 1884 Gabriel Dumont rode to Montana to talk to Louis Riel into coming back to Canad...
