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Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n Louis David Riel<\/a> was a Canadian politician (elected three times to the Canadian House of Commons, although he never assumed his seat), the leader of the M\u00e9tis<\/a> people of the prairies, and is considered to be the true founder of the province of Manitoba (in these parts he\u2019s now<\/em> regarded as our greatest folk hero). Today we celebrate his contributions by means of an official provincial holiday\u2014125 year sago he was hung for treason\u2026 his body is buried here in the churchyard of Saint-Boniface Cathedral.<\/p>\n \u201cMy people will sleep for one hundred years, \u2014Louis Riel<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winnipeg, Manitoba Louis David Riel was a Canadian politician (elected three times to the Canadian House of Commons, although he never assumed his seat), the leader of the M\u00e9tis people of the prairies, and is considered to be the true founder of the province of Manitoba (in these parts he\u2019s now regarded as our greatest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11,13,14,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15667,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbut when they awake, it will be the artists<\/span>
\nwho give them their spirit back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n