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Half-breed Uprising Hist.

• a second uprising of Métis, Crees, and white settlers, caused by the continued expansion of Canadian influence and settlement into the Saskatchewan region, nominally led by Louis Riel.

  See also: Northwest Rebellion (def. 2)  

  • 1885  Wild rumors are prevalent here to-day respecting the Half-breed uprising in the North-west.
  • 1935  The half-breed uprising was the only serious interruption to good order in the history of the [Northwest] Territories. . . .