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Join M. Max Hammon for the launch of his new book, The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875.
M. Max Hamon is a lecturer and research affiliate at McGill University and a lecturer in the Department of History at Queen's University.
Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885. A political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian Prairies, Riel is often portrayed as a rebel. Reconstructing his experiences in the Northwest, Quebec, and the worlds in between, Max Hamon revisits Riel's life through his own eyes, illuminating how he and the Métis were much more involved in state-making than historians have previously acknowledged. Revisiting the Red River Resistance on its 150th anniversary, The Audacity of His Enterprise offers a new view of Riel's life and a rethinking of the history of colonialism.