Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 79: Commemoration (79-83)

Batoche National Historic Site, Saskatchewan


(Métis) – Batoche was the final battlefield of the Northwest Resistance of 1885, an uprising born of years of the Metis people feeling excluded from the growth and development of the Canadian West. Batoche commemorates this armed conflict between the Canadian government and the Metis provisional government led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont.