Gabriel Dumont
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1816-1855, American History 1878-1900, American Indian History, Canadian History
Article abstract: Gabriel Dumont was an expert buffalo hunter, guide, and tribal military leader during the Second Riel Rebellion{$IRiel Rebellion, Second;and Dumont, Gabriel[Dumont, Gabriel]} in Saskatchewan.
Gabriel Dumont was the grandchild of a French Canadian who settled on the western prairie during the 1790's and married a Sarcee woman. An outgrowth of the fur trade, the Méti (mixed) people represented a new mixed-blood nation with a culture that combined French Roman Catholic and indigenous ways. Several thousand Métis ranged over the plains of...
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