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BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)
Burt Award for First Nations, M?tis, 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, Xatsull 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 onlynot by the names with which they knew and understood themselves.
In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Josephs Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential schools lasting effects on her and her familyfrom substance abuse to suicide attemptsand eloquently articulates her own path to healing. 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.
Author: Bev Sellars
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 05/29/2012
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780889227415
Language: English
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