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A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge. Foreword by Joseph Boyden.
After being separated from his family at age 7, Metatawabin was assigned a number and stripped of his Native identity. At his residential school--one of the worst in Canada--he was physically and emotionally abused, and was sexually abused by one of the staff. Leaving high school, he turned to alcohol to forget the trauma. He later left behind his wife and family, and fled to Edmonton, where he joined a Native support group that helped him come to terms with his addiction and face his PTSD. By listening to elders' wisdom, he learned how to live an authentic Native life within a modern context, thereby restoring what had been taken from him years earlier. Metatawabin has worked tirelessly to bring traditional knowledge to the next generation of Native youth and leaders, as a counsellor at the University of Alberta, Chief in his Fort Albany community, and today as a youth worker, Native spiritual leader and activist. His work championing indigenous knowledge, sovereignty and rights spans several decades and has won him awards and national recognition. His story gives a personal face to the problems that beset Native communities and fresh solutions, and untangles the complex dynamics that sparked the Idle No More movement. Haunting and brave, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.
• JOSEPH BOYDEN is a friend, fully supports Metatawabin and the book, and wrote the foreword.
- Sales Rank: #1354358 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Released on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .90" w x 5.20" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
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Praise for Up Ghost River:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction
"Up Ghost River is a heart song, a love song to a very special people and place, to a geography and a culture that are a foundation of who we are as a nation." Joseph Boyden, from his foreword
"Searing new memoir." Toronto Star
"This aptly titled, well-crafted book is an especially poignant reminder of the harm [residential schools] caused.... A memoir containing a polemic wrapped in native history." Winnipeg Free Press
About the Author
EDMUND METATAWABIN, former Chief of Fort Albany First Nation, is a Cree writer, educator and activist. A residential school survivor, he has devoted himself to righting the wrongs of the past, and educating Native youth in traditional knowledge. Metatawabin now lives in his self-made log house in Fort Albany, Ontario, off the reserve boundary, on land he refers to as my "Grandfathers' Land." He owns a local sawmill and also works as a consultant, speaker and researcher.
ALEXANDRA SHIMO is a former radio producer for the CBC and former editor at Maclean's. An award-winning journalist, she is the author of The Environment Equation, which was published in 12 countries. She lives in Toronto.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Survivance
By The Professor
This is not a book you read fro pleasure, it is a book you endure along with the author. Parts of it are heartbreaking, parts will make you strongly dislike the Catholic Church and the people who claim to love God, while they seem to hate his creations. One issue I struggled with was the dependence on alcohol as a means of coping. I know this is almost a cliche, but it seemed that the protagonist tad turned his life around, but then he falls back in to the same patterns. This book is worth reading for the occasional glimpses of hope and the fact that there is some closure, but this is not a book to relax you before bedtime. I found that i had to put it down at times and not return for days, because i feared what was coming next. The strengths of this book are the rare insights into traditional beliefs and the strength that might be drawn from them, however these are mixed in with behavior that suggests that these traditions are not adequate for coping with the demons that haunt children trained and abused in residential schools. Still there is hope in this story.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A brave story of hope.
By Marian Lloyd
Ed's journey between two cultures is written from an honest and personal perspective. I am horrified at the abuse he and others suffered at the hands of the Catholic Church.Yet Ed does not seem bitter.He has worked on finding a better way for his family and his community. This country needs more" Eds" and" Joans" to build a solid foundation for the future. Worth reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
“Kill the Indian, Save the Child”
By Julee Rudolf
Because I live a mere 75 miles from Canada, I listen to CBC radio often, which is how I learned about the issue of Catholic sisters’ and priests’ mental, physical and sexual abuse of First Nations children who attended the Residential Schools in the early and mid 1900s. Digging a little deeper into this issue online, I learned (at Canada Encyclopedia) that “Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Aboriginal children into Euro-Canadian culture,” “the general experience of students of residential schools students was more negative than positive,” “The Roman Catholic Church operated three-fifths [Anglican, United and Presbyterian the remainder].” The Legacy of Hope Foundation lists the number of Aboriginal children who attended Residential school as 150,000. According to the UBC site, “Abuse at the schools was widespread: emotional and psychological abuse was constant, physical abuse was meted out as punishment, and sexual abuse was also common.” Eek!
Author Edmund Metatawabin, with help from Alexandra Shimo, recounts his experiences in a Residential School in Canada in the 1950s, specifically, “St. Anne’s, in northern Ontario…an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff and teachers inflicted on students. His story begins with the death of his baby sister and his family’s struggle to survive on the little income his father earned from trapping animals for their fur. His father’s Cree spiritual beliefs conflicted with that of his mother, who had converted to Christianity and followed teachings of the Catholic Church. Their religious perspectives conflicted, but his mother won out when it came to the decision to send Edmund off to be educated at age seven. His father reluctantly agreed.
Once there, he loses his identity. School staff line the children up by height and assign them a number to be referred to instead of their given names – as is done in prison – which the school seemed to be at times. They treat the kids as sub-humans, which conflicts with their goal (p 36), “We are here to make you into good Christians and honourable members of Her Majesty’s Kingdom.” A priest touches boys’ privates inappropriately, supposedly as part of a medical examination when they first arrive. Teachers and staff dole out strict punishment for even the smallest rule infraction and eat like kings and queens while feeding the kids like paupers. Children endure whippings, solitary confinement, a daily bed check after which kids who’d wet or soiled their underpants are forced to wear them on their heads in shame in front of their classmates and… the electric chair, which is as bad as it sounds. It’s hard to imagine that that level of physical and sexual abuse could go on at such a place run by religious leaders. But it did. Mr. Metatawabin was only one of many victims of abuse to come forward and share their stories. In his case, it was after years of numbing his pain with alcohol and keeping the memories secret and jeopardizing his relationships with his loved ones. Eventually, he founds a treatment plan tailored towards First Nations people and a support group for same who suffered similar abuses in Residential Schools, “…he learned from elders, participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasized the holistic approach to personhood at the heart of Cree culture, and finally faced his alcoholism and PTSD.”
Metatawabin, “former Chief of Fort Albany First Nation, is a Cree writer, educator and activist.” His writing is lovely. He weaves information about First Nations language (p 185), “The Cree word for police, okipwakhoyso, means “the people who take you away;” beliefs (p 11), “The Spirit World was different from the Christian one…It was home to dead people who looked like me—our Cree ancestors who protected the living. It was both here and far away, Heaven and Earth, a place where the ancestors lived, our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, gookums and moshoms, stretching back until the First People, spirits that became human when they touched foot on this land;” and practices into this memoir of his traumatic experiences at Residential School and his journey towards healing. During his treatment, a line on a form he must complete ask (p 206), “What were the triggers for you wanting to drink alcohol/use drugs? I thought about all the things that made me want to drink. Why did they give us such a tiny box?” The story of his courtship, marriage and relationship challenges with his green-eyed blonde wife Joan is bittersweet. Through treatment and with the empowerment gained from speaking out against the abuse the religious leaders and others inflicted upon him and his fellow Residential School students, he begins to heal. Up Ghost River is a well-written informative story about some scary skeletons in Canada’s closet. Also excellent: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian and The Roundhouse by Louise Erdich.
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