Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Preface to the Texts of Louis Riel’s Addresses to the Jury and the Court 19
6. Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury, 31 July 1885 25
7. Louis Riel’s Address to the Court, 1 August 1885 45
8. The Queen vs Louis Riel: The Historical Context 72
9. “Through the Grace of God I Am the Founder of Manitoba”: Louis Riel’s Constitutional Thought 90
10. Louis Riel’s Trial Speeches 106
11. The Use and Force of Rhetorical Strategies in Louis Riel’s First Speech 122
12. Narrative and Logical Orders in Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury 135
13. “A New German-Indian World” in the North-West: A Métis Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Immigration in Louis Riel’s Trial Speeches 166
14. Reconstructing the Substantive Argument in Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury 204
15. “An Insane and Irresponsible Government”: Louis Riel and the Representation of Responsibility 224
16. “Who Starts the Nations?” Louis Riel and the Question of Geopolitical Legitimacy 247
17. Louis Riel’s Ethos and the Différend 264
18. The Case of Two Trials, Louis Riel and Socrates: Intersections, Overlaps, Divergences 280
19. Contributors 317
20. Index 321