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Quotation[0] = "\"You tell Middleton… that I am in the woods and that I still have 90 cartridges to use on his men.\" 1885, Gabriel Dumont to Moise Ouellette";
Quotation[1] = "\"Courage, as long as you haven’t lost your head you’re not dead.\" Gabriel Dumont to Joseph Delorme after a shot gashed the top of his head";
Quotation[2] = "\"Courage, I’m going to make the red coats jump in their carts with some rifle shots.\" Gabriel Dumont to his men, 1885";
Quotation[3] = "In 1869-70 the H.B.C. lands were being transferred to the Government of Canada. The Metis wanted to make it known, to the parties involved, that they did not agree with what was going on. Pierre wanted to accompany his son to the Red River Settlement to protest, but because of his advanced age the son would not take his father with him. Pierre’s argument was: \"While our enemies are busy carving me up… our men can hit them hard and get in some good blows.\" Pierre Falcon 1793-1876";
Quotation[4] = "Just before Riel was hung a guard asked him for a souvenir. Riel’s reply: \"I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.\" Louis Riel 1844-1885";
Quotation[5] = "\"I have seen two of the most distinguished voyageurs. They were dressed in sky blue capotes, scarlet sashes and high scarlet nightcaps and moccasins. L’Esperance was a Canadian the other a halfcast but there was little difference in their colour they have been so much exposed.\" Letitia Hargrave to Dugald Mactavish Sept. 2, 1840";
Quotation[6] = "\"It is necessary to watch them and manage them with great care, otherwise, they may become the most formidable enemy to which the settlement is exposed.\" 1824 Governor George Simpson writing Simon McTavish. Book source: 'Home from the Hill'";
Quotation[7] = "\"We may be a small community and a Half-breed community at that – but we are men, free and spirited men and we will not allow even the Dominion of Canada to trample on our rights.\" Louis Riel. Book Source: 'Strangers in Blood'";
Quotation[8] = "\"John A MacDonald breaks the law of the time by inducing rebellion\" so says Sir Wilfred Laurier";
Quotation[9] = "\"If the half-breeds had taken a different course, I do not believe the Province would now be in our possession.\" Lieutenant-Governor Archibald (sworn deposition before the Select Committee 1874)";
Quotation[10] = "\"As soon as we understood each other we joined in demanding what our English fellow subjects, in common with us, believe to be our just rights… Those rights will be set forth by our representatives, and, what is more, gentlemen, we will get them.\" Louis Riel…January 20, 1870 Red River Settlement";
Quotation[11] = "\"These impulsive half-breeds have got spoiled by this emeute (uprising) and must be kept down by a strong hand until they are swamped by the influx of settlers.\" Sir John A. MacDonald Feb. 23, 1870";
Quotation[12] = "\"To the English, I will not talk. To my ownpeople I will tell of the fighting.\" Gabriel Dumont July 1886";
Quotation[13] = "\"You can be sure that we would have beaten them had it not been for Louis Riel who always counseled us not to spill their blood.\" Gabriel Dumont";
Quotation[14] = "\"If the enemy take you prisoner, and blame you for what I have done, tell them that if the government can not make me believe, it is not easy for you to do so.\" Gabriel Dumont to his wife Madeline, 1885";
Quotation[15] = "\"Pray that God may preserve the little Metis nation, and cause it to grow… and remain faithful to its mission. During five years that I must pass in exile, I have only this to say to the Metis, remain Metis, become more Metis than ever.\" Louis Riel 1875";
Quotation[16] = "\"But if there is justice, as I still hope, oh dear, it seems to me I have become insane to hope still.\" Louis Riel, 1885";
Quotation[17] = "\"The day of my birth I was helpless and my mother took care of me… The Northwest is also my mother, it is my mother country… I am sure that my mother country will not kill me more than my mother did forty years ago when I came into the world, because a mother is always a mother, and even if I have my faults, if she can see I am true she will be full of love for me.\" Louis Riel";
Quotation[18] = "\"The good Lord, did not want me to see my poor Riel again. I wanted to tell him not to give himself up, but he might very easily have converted me to this point of view.\" Gabriel Dumont, May 15, 1885";
Quotation[19] = "\"I did not think of war. I crossed the line without arms and without ammunition. I came to petition for my people and for myself, in the hope of obtaining something, if not complete satisfaction.\" Louis Riel, Regina Trial";
Quotation[20] = "\"Having so long held this country as its master and so often defended it against the Indians at the price of blood, we consider it not asking too much to request that the Government allow us to occupy our lands in peace.\" Gabriel Dumont, 1882";
Quotation[21] = "\"We left Manitoba because we were not free and we came here to what was still a wild country in order to be free. And still they do not leave us alone.\" Gabriel Dumont, 1903";
Quotation[22] = "\"Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.\" Louis Riel (Montreal Star), 1885";
Quotation[23] = "\"I will never forget the year I spent in prison. That I, who upheld justice, right, and the British flag should have been imprisoned by the servants of that same great flag.\" Andre Nault (Reprinted Free Press), 1824";
Quotation[24] = "\"I am glad the Crown has proved that I am the leader of the half-breeds in the Northwest. I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the half-breeds, and if I am, I will have the opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.\" Louis Riel, 1885";
Quotation[25] = "When Riel argued for awaiting the enemy in Batoche, Gabriel Dumont replied that \"those who show themselves weak and hesitant beforehand will be good for nothing when they hear the women and children crying!\"";
Quotation[26] = "\"I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right… and I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it.\" Louis Riel";
Quotation[27] = "\"We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.\" Louis Riel";
Quotation[28] = "\"When the sun sets over Batoche we will watch mounted horsemen following a ghostly cross across a stormy red sky and we know all is not lost we will raise our heads up high as the sun sets over Batoche.\" Quotation from 'When the Sun Sets Over Batoche' by Rocky Woodward in Metis Songs published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute in 1993";
Quotation[29] = "\"My people will sleep for one hundred years when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.\" Louis Riel";
Quotation[30] = "\"Do you know these people of mine are just as were the children of Israel, a persecuted race deprived of their heritage. But I will wrest justice for them from the tyrant. I will be unto them a second David.\" Louis Riel";
Quotation[31] = "\"If, by trying to say that the Manitoba Treaty was of the delegates of the North West, the Canadian Government wanted to avoid the fact that I was being at all, the whole world knows that it is not so; they cannot avoid me.\" Louis Riel, 1885";

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