Gabriel Dumont (
1837 –
1906) was a leader of the
Métis people of what is now western
Canada. In 1873 Dumont was elected to the presidency of the short-lived commune of St-Laurent; afterward he continued to play a leading role among the Métis of the
South Saskatchewan River. He was adjutant general in the provisional Métis government declared in
Manitoba in 1885, and commanded the Métis forces in the
North-West Rebellion or North West Resistance of 1885.
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