The region now known as Assiniboia was formerly land held by the Hudson's Bay Company called Rupert's Land, populated overwhelmingly by Indian tribes with only a handful of European settlers in isolated outposts. The first major European settlement was sent by Lord Selkirk, a small colony of about 200 Scottish settlers that set up near the Hudson's Bay Company outpost of Fort Garry, which is where the city of Winnipeg eventually grew from. In 1869 Rupert's land was conceded to the recently established Dominion of Canada, and was named the Northwest Territory. However, the establishment of the Province of Manitoba, centered on Fort Garry, angered the native and Metis (descendants of European Fur trappers and Indian women they married), and, under the leadership of Louis Riel, the rebelled.