Canada, Indigenous Peoples, First Nations, Louis Riel, Trials, litigation, Métis 

About the Louis Riel trial 

Content
Section A: The trial
1 Introduction
2 Louis Riel, founding father of Manitoba
3 Canadian Expansionist movement and unrest in the North-West
4 Surrender, trial site, charges, and the Magistrate
5 The jury and tis selection
6 Riel: British subject or American citizen
7 Jurisdiction and Venue of the Magistrate's court
8 The lawyers
9 Application for adjournment of the trial
10 Crown witnesses and evidence
11 Open court dissension between Riel and his counsel
12 Witnesses for the Defense and rebuttal witnesses
13 Address to the jury
14 Magistrates' charge to the jury and the verdict
15 Riel's closing statement and the sentence

Section B Legal, Judicial and Political injustices
16 Riel's unlawful conviction and execution
17 Appeal court judges
18 Riel's appeal of his conviction
19 Riel's application to the privy council in England
20 Improprieties of Chief Justice Wallbridge and justice minister Campbell
21 Mercy denied
22 Shortcomings of Riel's lawyers