ABSTRACT
Gabriel Dumont's narrative of the Northwest Resistance of 1885 in Canada is a tale of military defeat, but it anchors the resilience of the Métis (a people formed from combined European and Indigenous parentage) as a nation. As a participant in the Battle of Batoche, the climactic battle of the resistance, Dumont's narrative offers an Indigenous perspective on the annexation of the Northwest by the Canadian government. Written for his own and future generations, his Mémoire should be read in multiple registers. While illiterate, Dumont sought a written record not only in the context of rising French-Canadian nationalism but also with the future of the Métis nation in mind.
