If they are going to teach history, then it would be nice to get the facts straight
-" his teacher referred to Louis Riel as a "madman" – a term that stuck in the young boy's head as one of the times he heard Indigenous people described in a negative light"-

Both his parents were westerners, and he is said to have had one-eighth Indian blood, his paternal grandmother being a Franco-Chipewyan Métisse.

--his mental and physical behaviour often revealed an obsession with the idea of a “mission”: he saw himself at once as the guardian of the spiritual well-being of the Métis and as the prophet and priest of a new form of Christianity. 
-- Riel already had experienced a mystical vision and an uncontrollable emotional seizure
Riel’s continuous shouting and crying
his continued religious mania finally resulted in the interruption of a church service
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/riel_louis_1844_85_11E.html