RIEL


Meaning of RIEL in English

n. family name; Louis Riel (1844-1885), Canadian rebel and leader who assisted his metis people in a rebellion over their land rights in 1885 against the Canadian authorities in the west (the Canadian authorities captured him, tried for betrayal and then executed him by hanging)

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