Women and the West
The Mounties, cowboys and Indian chiefs need to move to one side July–August 2006
Louis Riel had a sister. Her name was Sara and her claim to martyrdom on behalf of her Métis brethren is equal to his.
Until I read Lesley Erickson’s article in Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, I did not know about Sara Riel, although as an undergraduate at the University of Alberta I spent several months in Rudy Wiebe’s class studying her older brother’s…