Up ghost river is a beautifully courageous story of a boys life from childhood to adulthood as he navigates his world through residential school and beyond edmund metatawabin has brought an immense amount of light and voice to the aboriginal issues currently plaguing canada through devastating details of loss of innocence family and culture abuse addiction and on to the inspiring words . Haunting and brave up ghost river is a necessary step toward our collective healing. A powerful raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former first nations chief up ghost river is a necessary step toward our collective healing in the 1950s 7 year old edmund metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of canadas worst residential schools. A powerful raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former first nations chief up ghost river is a necessary step toward our collective healing in the 1950s 7 year old edmund metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of canadas worst residential schools. Former first nations chief up ghost river is a necessary step toward our collective healing in the 1950s 7 year old edmund metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of canadas worst residential schools st annes in northern ontario is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff