Great Manitoban Raid

Background
Native Americans were furious after the collapsing of the fur trade in Canada and therefore the Metis decided to retaliate against the North West Company This was one of the first raids on Manitoba and begun the collapsing relationship between the British and Native Americans. Chief Black Face was an escaped slaved child raised by a Native American Chief and began to become an important figure in the Metis Tribe Politics. Chief Black Face and surrounding tribes begun to amass 10,000 men to raid the town of Neepawa and captured the town and the Great Raid had begun

Raids(1834-1841)
The Great Raid was more of a series of raids against the British. Modern day Winnipeg was raided and others as well. The most large scale raid was against an Wagon Caravan which contained over 200 settlers and Chief Black Face massacred them leaving only one survivor a slave named George who escaped and told the British authorities in hoping to gain his freedom which he did. By this time in 1837 the British sent a force of 10,000 men to fight against the natives and which they did as the troops were starved and faced constant raids as well as Chief Black Face's villages did get burned down and the violence continued and for awhile immigration was halted by the raids. Eventually Chief Black Face died in a raid in 1840 after dying of disease from an infected arrow wound. Soon the other tribes after their leader had died the united movement slowly collapsed without leadership and the entire war was declared over in 1841 when the British burned down the home village of Chief Black Face. Later raids did occur all the way up to the 1850's but weren't as big this raid.

Results
After the raids collapsed some of the tribes immigrated westward and immigration was free again. Various smaller raids did occur but not in such numbers as before. The relations with the Native Americans fell down after the raids as each side hated each other. It wasn't till the 1870's during the Metis war were the Native Americans defeated after they gathered in similar numbers as the Great Raids.