Bev Sellars

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Bev Sellars


Born
Soda Creek, British Columbia, Canada
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Bev Sellars is a Xat'sull writer of the award-winning book, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School, describing her experiences within the Canadian Indian residential school system. She is also a longtime-serving Chief of the Xat'sull First Nations. ...more

Average rating: 4.22 · 3,218 ratings · 359 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
They Called Me Number One

4.21 avg rating — 3,096 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
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Price Paid: The Fight for F...

4.43 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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“Soon after arrival at residential school, we were assigned a number that would become our identity. I became Number 1 on the girls' side. Ninety years after she left St. Joseph's Mission, my grandmother still remembered she was Number 27. My mom remembers her number was 71. Thankfully, our numbers were not tattooed on our skin.”
Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One

“Someone said that I am a survivor but I believe I am much more than that. I prefer to claim outright victory in this war against the residential-school experience. Even though I sometimes barely survived, I didn’t become one of the terrible statistics of Aboriginal people. In the end, I win!”
Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One

“Many Canadians are unaware of what happened in a country that proudly boasts of being one of the best places in the world to live…It is the greatest place to live for anyone, except for the original inhabitants of this land, the Aboriginal people.”
Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One

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