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the métis people call the Northwest "Rebellion" the Northwest resistance because their attitude was not to secede from Canada but to resist Colonial sanctions against them. The métis people have always wished to remain part of the Dominion of Canada. They only fought to uphold legally signed treaties that the Canadian government was not recognizing.