![]() She has served as an advisor to the British Columbia Treaty Commission. She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. Bev Sellars is a Xatsull writer of the award-winning book, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School, describing her. They Called Me 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.īev Sellars is chief of the Xatsu'll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. 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. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. 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. ![]() She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law. Bev Sellars is chief of the Xatsull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings forced separation from family, language, and culture and strict discipline. Number One comes at a time of recognitionby governments and society at largethat only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them. Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, 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. ![]()
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