'Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion' is a romance-adventure novel by Joseph Edmund Collins. Starring the young maiden Annette, we are introduced to her through the eyes of the Metis chief, Louis Riel, who harbors romantic interest towards her. Their first encounter left them both unimpressed for though the ravishing beauty of the girl was more than the amorously-disposed stranger could resist, the soft-eyed fawn of the desert soon showed herself in the guise of a petit bete sauvage.

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'Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion' is a romance-adventure novel by Joseph Edmund Collins. Starring the young maiden Annette, we are introduced to her through the eyes of the Metis chief, Louis Riel, who harbors romantic interest towards her. Their first encounter left them both unimpressed for though the ravishing beauty of the girl was more than the amorously-disposed stranger could resist, the soft-eyed fawn of the desert soon showed herself in the guise of a petit bete sauvage.

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The nineteenth-century Métis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been depicted variously as a traitor to Confederation; a French-Canadian and Catholic martyr; a bloodthirsty rebel; a pan-American liberator; a pawn of shadowy white forces; a Prairie political maverick; a First Nations hero; an alienated intellectual; a victim of Western industrial progress; and even a Father of Confederation. Albert Braz synthesizes the available material by and about Riel, including film, sculpture, and cartoons, as well as literature in French and English, and analyzes how an historical figure could be portrayed in such contradictory ways. In light of the fact that most aesthetic representations of Riel bear little resemblance not only to one another but also to their purported model, Braz suggests that they reveal less about Riel than they do about their authors and the society to which they belong. The most comprehensive treatment of the representations of Louis Riel in Canadian literature, The False Traitor will be a seminal work in the study of this popular Canadian figure.