I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the … - Louis Riel

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Louis Riel

I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the North-West. I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the Half-breeds, and if I am I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.

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My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

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We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

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I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it.

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I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

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