The Legagy of Louis Riel by John Andrew Morrow

Author:John Andrew Morrow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Baraka Books

When I speak to you, it is the voice of God that rings.

And everything that I say is essential to you.

I am the happy telephone,

That transmits to you the songs and discourses from heaven.

Between 1884-1885, Stanley reports that “Riel has numerous and intense spiritual experiences… He goes through extremes of exaltation and depression.” In 1885, notes Stanley, Riel wrote that his “communication with God” was “continual and taken for insanity.” He was convinced that God had granted him a mission: to establish a new Métis Nation in the Northwest where he would be a leader like the biblical David. As Glen Campbell writes, “One of his more important revelations deals with the transfer of the papacy from Rome to Montreal, and ultimately to St. Vital, [Manitoba,] where the Riel family resided… Anyone attempting to thwart this ambitious goal was seen by Riel as an enemy and attacked accordingly.”

In his “Revelations Regarding the Laws of the Old Testament,” written in Beauport, Quebec, between May 20, 1876, and January 23, 1878, Riel sanctified polygyny, but by the authority of Jesus only permitted men to have a maximum of five wives. In some instances, he even allowed brothers to marry their sisters. As he wrote,

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