“We may be a small community and a Half-breed community at that — but we are men, free and spirited men, and we will not allow even the Dominion of Canada to trample on our rights.”

—  Louis Riel

As quoted in The History of Canada (1970) by Kenneth William Kirkpatrick McNaught, p. 143

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