As a spokesman for Métis resistance to Canadian expansion in the Red River area, Riel headed a provisional government which took over Fort Garry in 1869. The negotiations that followed led to the creation of the Province of Manitoba in 1870. Forced into exile in the United States in part because of the execution of a captive by the Provisional government, Riel returned to the North-West in 1884 to represent a group, largely of Métis, in their struggle for land rights. The next year he led the ill-fated North-West Rebellion of native people and was subsequently hanged for treason.