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Sellars, Bev, 1955-
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Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955- -- Family.
St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.) -- History.
Shuswap First Nation -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Shuswap First Nation -- Crimes against.
Shuswap First Nation -- Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.
First Nations -- British Columbia -- Residential schools.
First Nations -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
First Nations -- Education
First Nations children, Treatment of
First Nations, Treatment of
Indigenous peoples -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools -- History.
Aboriginal children -- Canada -- Abuse of -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Education -- Canada -- History.
Burt Award.
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Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955- -- Family.
St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.) -- History.
Shuswap First Nation -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Shuswap First Nation -- Crimes against.
Shuswap First Nation -- Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.
First Nations -- British Columbia -- Residential schools.
First Nations -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
First Nations -- Education
First Nations children, Treatment of
First Nations, Treatment of
Indigenous peoples -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools -- History.
Aboriginal children -- Canada -- Abuse of -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Education -- Canada -- History.
Burt Award.
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They called me
Number
One :
secrets
and
survival
at an
Indian
residential
school
/ Bev Sellars.
by
Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Talonbooks, c2013.
Call #:
371.82997 S467t
Subjects
Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955- -- Family.
St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.) -- History.
Shuswap First Nation -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Shuswap First Nation -- Crimes against.
Shuswap First Nation -- Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.
First Nations -- British Columbia --
Residential
schools.
First Nations -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
First Nations -- Education
First Nations children, Treatment of
First Nations, Treatment of
Indigenous peoples -- Education -- British Columbia -- Williams Lake -- History.
Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Canada --
Residential
schools -- History.
Aboriginal children -- Canada -- Abuse of -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada -- History.
Aboriginal peoples -- Education -- Canada -- History.
Burt Award.
ISBN:
9780889227415 (pbk.)
0889227411 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Number
One :
secrets
and
survival
at an
Indian
residential
school
Number
1
:
secrets
and
survival
at an
Indian
residential
school
Description:
xx, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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 five, 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 first 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 confined 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 effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Bev Sellars is chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia"--Provided by publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Young Adult Literature (Third Prize), 2014.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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