Suggested Questions for Class Discussion

The following questions may be used to help generate discussion, and as an activating activity to find out what students know:

• Why is Louis Riel considered the Father of Manitoba?
• Who owns this land and why? What constitutes land ownership?
• What is government?
• How are governments legitimized?
• Who are the Métis?
• Who originally lived in Red River Settlement (including what is now Winnipeg and surrounding area)?
• Why would the Métis care if Canadian surveyors came out to Red River?
• Why would John A. Macdonald negotiate with the Métis?
• What was Confederation?
• What is colonialism?