02724cam a2200337 4500 606950754 TxAuBib 20221009120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780889227422 088922742X B00CST3NH8 Amazon f1947085-635a-4da4-a4b4-4664a951ca83 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1319187 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sellars, Bev. They Called Me Number One [Bridges eBook] : Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School. Talonbooks, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5175kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p>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 only—not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves.</p> <p>In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. 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. <i>Number One</i> 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.</p> <p><b>Bev Sellars</b> is chief of the Xatsu'll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. She has served as an advisor to the British Columbia Treaty Commission.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-08 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/they-called-me-f19470?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/they-called-me-f19470?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/they-called-me-f19470?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)