Jennifer

“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

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Aboriginal people in Canada have a story to tell, a story most non-Aboriginals don’t know about.”
― 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