Edmund Metatawabin

{{Short description|First Nations chief and writer}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Edmund Metatawabin

| honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}}

| birth_place = Fort Albany, Ontario

| occupation = Chief, author, Indigenous advocate.

| period = 1980s-present

| nationality = Mushkegowuk Cree

| notableworks = Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History

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Edmund Metatawabin {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} is a First Nations chief and writer, whose 2014 memoir Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.Edmund Metatawabin is an actor and producer, known for In Jesus' Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School (2017) and Through Black Spruce (2018).[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/governor-general-finalists-unveiled/article20959928/ "Governor-General Literary Awards finalists unveiled"]. The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014.

A former chief of the Fort Albany First Nation in Ontario,"Meetings Will Examine Gaps in Services for Natives". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 7, 1989. he published Up Ghost River, cowritten with journalist Alexandra Shimo, as a memoir of his childhood experience in Canada's Indian residential schools system."Surviving atrocities". Toronto Star, August 31, 2014.