Question: who led the metis in the rebellions at red river in 1870 and in the northwest in 1885
Answer: The Red River Resistance ( or the Red River Rebellion , Red River uprising , or First Riel Rebellion ) was the sequence of events that lead up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony , in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba .