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• Title:They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school / Bev Sellars ; [foreword by Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Bill Wilson) ; afterword by Wendy Wickwire].
  
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• Author/Creator:Sellars, Bev, 1955-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : Talonbooks, 2013.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER S45 T44 2013
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--British Columbia--Williams Lake.
  Indigenous Peoples
  Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--Impact.
  Indigenous Peoples--Hospitals--British Columbia--Coqualeetza.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sellars, Bev, 1955-
  Sellars, Bev, 1955---Family.
  St. Joseph's Mission School--British Columbia--Williams Lake.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  
• Description:xx, 227 p. : ill., maps, ports., geneal. tables ; 22 cm
  
• Additional formats:Also issued in electronic format.
  
• Local note:First Nations author - Xat'sull (Soda Creek) First Nation.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780889227415 (pbk.)
  0889227411
  
• Contents:Foreward / Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Chief Bill Wilson)
  Preface - What pain have you suffered?
  Chapter 1 My grandmother and others before me
  Chapter 2 Sardis hospital = loneliness
  Chapter 3 St. Joseph's Mission = prison
  Chapter 4 I got religion but what did it mean?
  Chapter 5 The body was no temple
  Chapter 6 A few good memories
  Chapter 7 Pain, bullying, but also pleasure
  Chapter 8 Home sweet home
  Chapter 9 Summer of '67
  Chapter 10 Life on the reserve
  Chapter 11 One day I realized I had survived
  Chapter 12 Becoming a leader
  Chapter 13 Going to university
  Chapter 14 Final thoughts
  Afterword / Wendy Wickwire.