They Called Me Number One by Sellars, Bev

They Called Me Number One

BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis,...
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Author: Bev Sellars
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They Called Me Number One by Sellars, Bev

They Called Me Number One

CHF 27.39

They Called Me Number One

CHF 27.39
Author: Bev Sellars
Format: Paperback
Language: English

BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)
Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)

Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.

These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only--not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves.

In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family--from substance abuse to suicide attempts--and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Number One comes at a time of recognition--by governments and society at large--that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them.



Author: Bev Sellars
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 04/15/2012
Pages: 227
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.78w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780889227415


Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 07/01/2013 pg. 39

About the Author
Bev Sellars: Bev Sellars is Chief of the the Xat'sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. She has served as an advisor to the BC Treaty Commission.

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