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During the mid-1800s, an influx of white protestant settlers moved to Red River, claiming formerly First Nations and Métis lands as their own. Louis Riel was born in the Red River Settlement, a primarily Catholic and First Nations and Métis-inhabited area spanning present-day Manitoba and parts of the surrounding territories. Erdrich links Mooshum’s personal history to the Métis rebellions in Canada in the 1800s, led by Métis politician Louis Riel. Generally, these decisions have centered on land rights. These include the vast catalog of Supreme Court cases dealing with Native rights and autonomy that Joe finds in his father’s Handbook, starting as far back as the early 1800s. Louise Erdrich’s work refers explicitly to various events in the history of the Ojibwe people, and in the history of indigenous people in the United States and Canada more generally.
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