TY - BOOK AU - Sellars,Bev TI - They called me Number One: secrets and survival at an Indian residential school SN - 9780889227415 (pbk.) U1 - 371.829/97943 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Vancouver PB - Talonbooks KW - Sellars, Bev, KW - St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.) KW - History KW - Shuswap First Nation KW - Education KW - British Columbia KW - Williams Lake KW - Crimes against KW - Biography KW - Off-reservation boarding schools KW - Canada KW - First Nations KW - Residential schools KW - First Nations children, Treatment of KW - First Nations, Treatment of KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aboriginal children KW - Abuse of KW - Burt Award KW - Memoirs KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "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 ve, 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 ER -