Exovedate is the named coined by Métis leader Louis Riel and given by him to his council of the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan during the North-West Rebellion in Canada. Ten years prior to this date on December 8, 1875 after attending a mass in Washington, D. C., Riel had a religious vision where God spoke to him in Latin. Riel believed that God had chosen him to be the divine leader of the Mètis and that he had been given the mission to lead them to their promised land similar to how God had chosen Moses to lead the Jews. From this point onward Louis took the middle name "David" and called himself "the prophet of the new world." In order to facilitate Riel's political and religious ambitions he formed the Exovedate in March of 1885. The term is a neologism invented by Riel, derived from the Latin "ex" out of and "ovis" sheep, meaning "those who have left the flock". The Exovedate was comprised of twenty men, including Gabriel Dumont and