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.
Louis RielI became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.
Louis RielMy people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
Louis Riel