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Article: Brave, brilliant & buried at Batoche.(footprints ... Gabriel Dumont championed aboriginal land claims)
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- Wind Speaker
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- August 1, 2003
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When most people think about the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, the first name that pops into their minds is Louis Riel. Fewer people think of the man who stood by Riel's side, commanding a handful of Metis men willing to fight to protect their way of life. That man was Gabriel Dumont.
Dumont was born in St. Boniface in December 1837, near present-day Winnipeg. He was the fifth child born to Isidore Dumont and Louis Laframboise, the daughter of a Metis hunter. His grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Dumont, had been a voyageur from Montreal, employed by the Hudson's Bay Co. His grandmother was a member of the Sarcee tribe.
Throughout his life, Dumont was the ...