riel
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1. riel - Noun
2. Riel - Proper noun
Meaning
the basic unit of money in Cambodia; equal to 100 sen
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There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.
And all around Regina they talk about him still – why did they have to kill Louis Riel?"
A track entitled Snowin' Today: A Lament for Louis Riel appears on the 2009 album Live: Two Nights In March by Saskatchewan singer/guitarist Little Miss Higgins; a studio version features on her 2010 release Across The Plains.
As Riel's religious pronouncements became increasingly heretical the clergy distanced themselves, and father Alexis André cautioned Riel against mixing religion and politics.
An opera about Riel entitled Louis Riel was commissioned for Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967.
But after Riel disrupted a religious service, Lee arranged to have him committed in an asylum in Longue Pointe on 6 March 1876 under the assumed name "Louis R. David".