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Saskatchewan Rebellion

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a second uprising of Métis, Crees, and white settlers, caused by the continued expansion of Canadian influence and settlement into the Saskatchewan region, nominally led by Louis Riel.

See: Northwest Rebellion(def. 2)

Quotations

1963
The Saskatchewan Rebellion was a sad affair, and it was to have even sadder consequences; consequences which began to work out their evil course when on November 16 [1885], after all appeals had failed, Riel was hanged at Regina.
1963
. . . in 1885 he saw more adventure and this time some action during the campaigns of Riel's Saskatchewan Rebellion.