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Métis leader Louis Riel commemorated

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Author

By Susan Solway Sweetgrass Staff Writer

Volume

18

Issue

1

Year

2010

Among those speaking at a special ceremony commemorating Louis Riel were (from left): Elder Marge Freidel (Métis Nation of Alberta), MNA President Audrey Poitras, Minister of Aboriginal Relations Len Webber,  MLA Guy Boutillier (representing the Wildrose Alliance), Liberal leader David Swan; missing is Garry Parenteau representing the Métis Settlement General Council. The ceremony took place in the rotunda of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton on Nov. 16 and marked 125 years ago that Riel died.