Editing North-West Rebellion (section)

==Nomenclature==
The conflict is referred to by several names, including the ''North-West Rebellion'',<ref name="EncyBrit_2016">{{cite encyclopedia |editor-first1=Rod |editor-last1=Macleod |editor-first2=Richard |editor-last2=Foot |title=North-West Rebellion |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |date=2016 |access-date=5 September 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/North-West-Rebellion |archive-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630234052/https://www.britannica.com/event/North-West-Rebellion |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Mulvany_1886">{{Cite book |last=Mulvany |first=Charles Pelham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0-Rd0Y1Q8oC |title=The History of the North-west Rebellion of 1885 |publisher=A.H. Hovey & Co. |year=1886 |location=Toronto |pages=40–41}}</ref><ref name="Stanley_1936_1992">{{cite book |last=Stanley |first=George |author-link=George Stanley |url=http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1544.html |title=The Birth of Western Canada: A History of The Riel Rebellions |orig-year=1936 |date=1992 |pages=475 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=0-8020-6931-2 |access-date=2022-09-05 |archive-date=2022-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905202428/http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1544.html |url-status=live }} with new introduction by [[Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)|Thomas Flanagan]]</ref> the ''North-West Resistance'',<ref name="Barkwell_2011"/><ref name="SaskArchives_2011">{{Cite web| title = The North-West Resistance| work = Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan| access-date = 5 September 2022| url = http://saskarchives.com/collections/exhibits/cpr-telegraph-ledger/cpr-telegraph-ledger-north-west-resistance| archive-date = 5 September 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220905215357/http://saskarchives.com/collections/exhibits/cpr-telegraph-ledger/cpr-telegraph-ledger-north-west-resistance| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="Thistle_2014"/><ref name="Teillet_2019">{{Cite book| publisher = HarperCollins| isbn = 978-1-4434-5014-0| last = Teillet| first = Jean| title = The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation| date = 17 September 2019 |pages=576}}</ref> the ''1885 Resistance'',<ref name="Barkwell_2011">{{Cite book| last = Barkwell| first = Lawrence J.| date = 2011| publisher = Gabriel Dumont Institute| title = Veterans and Families of the 1885 Northwest Resistance| location = Saskatoon| isbn = 978-1-926795-03-4| url = https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149693.Veterans%20and%20Families%20of%201885%20Low-Res%20(Oct%202017%20Version).pdf| access-date = 2022-09-05| archive-date = 2022-10-17| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221017045450/https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149693.Veterans%20and%20Families%20of%201885%20Low-Res%20(Oct%202017%20Version).pdf| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Ouellette_2014">{{cite journal |last=Ouellette |first=Robert-Falcon |title=The Second Métis War of 1885: A Case Study of Non-Commissioned Member Training and the Intermediate Leadership Program |journal=Canadian Military Journal |volume=14 |number=4 |date=2014 |access-date=5 September 2022 |url=http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol14/no4/PDF/CMJ144Ep54.pdf |pages=54–65 |archive-date=15 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915080049/http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol14/no4/PDF/CMJ144Ep54.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|55}}<ref name="CAEncy_NWR_20210708"/><ref name="Thistle_2014">{{cite journal |last=Thistle |first=Jesse |title=The 1885 Northwest Resistance: Causes to the Conflict |journal=HPS History and Political Science Journal |volume=3 |date=2014 |url=http://hpsj.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hpsj/article/download/39584/35870 |access-date=2015-11-05 |archive-date=2015-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223190653/http://hpsj.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hpsj/article/download/39584/35870 |url-status=live }}</ref> the ''Northwest Uprising'', the ''Saskatchewan Rebellion'', and the ''Second Riel Rebellion''.<ref name="CAEncy_NWR_20210708">{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Beal |editor-first1=Bob |editor-first2=Rod |editor-last2=Macleod |editor-first3=Richard |editor-last3=Foot |editor-first4=Eli |editor-last4=Yarhi|title=North-West Resistance |date=July 8, 2021 |encyclopedia=Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/north-west-rebellion |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901073157/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/north-west-rebellion |archive-date=September 1, 2022}}</ref> The conflict, grouped with the [[Red River Rebellion]], is collectively referred to as the ''Riel Rebellions''.<ref name="CAEncy_NWR_20210708"/>

The terms ''rebellion'' and ''resistance'' can be used almost synonymously. Academics state the use of one term or the other changes the perspective of how a conflict is understood.<ref name="CAEncy_NWR_20210708"/><ref name="Foster_Oosterom_2013">{{cite web|url=https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/first-nations-inuit-metis/shifting-riel-ity-the-1885-north-west-rebellion|title=Shifting Riel-ity: The 1885 North-West Rebellion|last1=Foster|first1=Keith|last2=Oosterom|first2=Nelle|date=13 February 2013|access-date=29 July 2022|publisher=Canada's Historical Society|website=www.canadashistory.ca|archive-date=1 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701233855/https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/first-nations-inuit-metis/shifting-riel-ity-the-1885-north-west-rebellion|url-status=live}}</ref> Indigenous studies scholars and many historians refer to Indigenous uprisings in reaction to European colonization as resistances—Indigenous nations self-governed the land before the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] (HBC) and then the Canadian government exerted their sovereignty over it.<ref name="CAEncy_NWR_20210708"/> Use of the term resistance has spread to several organizations and publications - ''[[Canadian Geographic]]'',<ref>{{Cite web| title = 1885 Northwest Resistance| work = Canadian Geographic| access-date = 10 September 2022| url = https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/1885-northwest-resistance/| archive-date = 30 August 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220830060401/https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/1885-northwest-resistance/| url-status = live}}</ref> ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'',<ref name="CAEncy_NWR_20210708"/> and the [[Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan]].<ref name="SaskArchives_2011"/>