They called me Number One :
Sellars, Bev, 1955-
They called me Number One : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school / Number One : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school Number 1 : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school Bev Sellars. - Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2013. - xx, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Xat'sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition, beginning at the age ofve, Sellars was isolated for two years at Coqualeetza Indian Turberculosis Hospital in Sardis, British Columbia, nearly six hours' drive from home. The trauma of these experiences has reverberated throughout her life. The rst full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph's Mission at Williams Lake, BC, Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended the school, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. She tells of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings, often with a leather strap, and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution where children were conned and denigrated for failure to be White and Roman Catholic. St. Joseph's mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hubert O'Connor, which took place during Sellars's student days, between 1962 and 1967, when O'Connor was the school principal. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution's lasting eects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Bev Sellars is chief of the Xatsull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia"--Provided by publisher.
Winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, M�etis and Inuit Young Adult Literature (Third Prize), 2014.
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Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955- --Family.
St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.)--History.
Shuswap First Nation--Education--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
Shuswap First Nation--Crimes against.
Shuswap First Nation--Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.
First Nations--Residential schools.--British Columbia
First Nations--Education--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
First Nations--Education
First Nations children, Treatment of
First Nations, Treatment of
Indigenous peoples--Education--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--History.--Canada
Aboriginal peoples--Residential schools--History.--Canada
Aboriginal children--Abuse of--History.--Canada
Aboriginal peoples--Cultural assimilation--History.--Canada
Aboriginal peoples--Education--History.--Canada
Burt Award.
Memoirs.
371.829/97943
They called me Number One : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school / Number One : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school Number 1 : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school Bev Sellars. - Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2013. - xx, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Xat'sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition, beginning at the age of
Winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, M�etis and Inuit Young Adult Literature (Third Prize), 2014.
9780889227415 (pbk.) 0889227411 (pbk.)
2013901103X
Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955- --Family.
St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.)--History.
Shuswap First Nation--Education--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
Shuswap First Nation--Crimes against.
Shuswap First Nation--Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.
First Nations--Residential schools.--British Columbia
First Nations--Education--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
First Nations--Education
First Nations children, Treatment of
First Nations, Treatment of
Indigenous peoples--Education--History.--British Columbia--Williams Lake
Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--History.--Canada
Aboriginal peoples--Residential schools--History.--Canada
Aboriginal children--Abuse of--History.--Canada
Aboriginal peoples--Cultural assimilation--History.--Canada
Aboriginal peoples--Education--History.--Canada
Burt Award.
Memoirs.
371.829/97943