hink she would be able to get used to the prairies. Riel left and after several months, Riel stopped writing to her and the relationship came to an end.On June 4, Riel got a visit from four Mtis, Gabriel Dumont, Mose Ouellette, Michel Dumas and James Isbister. They came to ask Louis to lead the Mtis once again. They had traveled from northern Saskatchewan where several Mtis families had settled after 1869. There the Mtis had continued their traditional way of life, now threatened by the arrival of settlers and immigrants. Their land was disappearing. Their rights were not being respected. Louis made up his mind quickly. The dream he had treasured for so long was coming true. After not coming for fifteen years he was returning to Canada. Louis set out for Batoche with his wife and two children, arriving there around the beginning of July 1884. On July 8, about six days after his arrival, he talk to the Mtis. His plan was a fair one, aimed at as much towards the Indians and the white settlers as to the Mtis.All three groups responded warmly to the attendance of Louis Riel. A committee was to made to ask demands to be sent to Ottawa. A decision had been made to send petitions to Ottawa on behalf of all the people. On December 16, 1884, after many meetings had been held, a petition was mailed to Ottawa. It demanded that the settlers be given title to the lands they then held, in the Saskatchewan, and Alberta be granted provincial status, also that laws be passed to encourage the nomadic Indians and Mtis to settle on the land, and that the Indians be better treated.On February 11, 1885, the federal government responded to the petition that had been sent . The government promised to assign a commission to look into the Mtis claims and titles. First they would be to take a census of the Mtis in the North-West Territories. This angered the Mtis who were hoping for a better solution to their problems. The Mtis looked at Riel as a leader and a...
