Up Ghost River (38 page)

(From
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux
as told through John Neihardt, University of Nebraska Press, 1972.)

^10.
The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway
, Edward Benton-Banai, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

^11.
A religious practice involving fasting and smoking a sacred pipe that helps people drop into higher place of consciousness so that they can communicate with the Spirit World.

^12.
Viktor Frankl,
Man's Search for Meaning
, Beacon Press, 1959.

“The History of Red” is reprinted by permission from
The Book of Medicines
(Coffee House Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by Linda Hogan.

Excerpt from
Sitting Bull Remembers
. Copyright © 2007 by Anne Turner. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” reprinted from
The Summer of Black Widows
by Sherman Alexie, copyright © 1996, by permission of Hanging Loose Press.

Excerpt reprinted from
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
by John G. Neihardt by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2014 by the University of Nebraska Press. Original printings copyright 1932, 1959, 1972 by John G. Neihardt. © 1961 by the John G. Neihardt Trust.

“Dying Back, and: Out of Ashes, Peace Will Rise” by Marilou Awiakta. From
Appalachian Heritage
, Volume 16, Winter. Copyright © 1988 by the Appalachian Center at Berea College. Used by permission of the publisher.

Part One
and
Two
openers: Metatawabin Productions and Research.

Insert: (
1.1
and
1.5
) Metatawabin Productions and Research; (
1.6
) Andrew Wesley; (
1.7
) Fort Albany, ON – Oblate Priest and girls in a canoe, Archives Deschâtelets; (
1.8
) Metatawabin Productions and Research; (
1.9
to
1.12
) Metatawabin Productions and Research; (
1.16
) Andrew Wesley; (
1.16
and
1.18
) Metatawabin Productions and Research; (
1.19
to
1.23
) Metatawabin Productions and Research.

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 twelve countries. She volunteers as a communications consultant for the non-profit Up With Women, which works with at-risk women, and with DreamCatcher Mentoring, which helps native youth. She lives in Toronto.