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    They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school / Bev Sellars.

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    • Title:They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school / Bev Sellars.
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    • Author/Creator:Sellars, Bev, 1955- author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Miki, Roy, donor.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada : Talonbooks, [2013]
      ©2013

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      • Location:Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
        c.2  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)
      • Call Number: E99.S45 S45 2013
      • Number of Items:3
      • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-06-2024
        c.3 On loan - Due on 05-02-2024
      • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at OKANAGAN LIBRARY damagedWhere is this?
        c.2  Temporarily shelved at MAA LIBRARY (IKB) reserve collection
      • Call Number: E99.S45 S45 2013
      • Number of Items:2
      • Status:Available
      • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at OKANAGAN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS storageWhere is this?
      • Call Number: E99.S45 S45 2013
      • Number of Items:1
      • Status:Available
       
    • Canadian Subjects: First Nations--British Columbia--Residential schools.
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Sellars, Bev, 1955-
      Sellars, Bev, 1955---Family.
      St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.)--History.
      Shuswap Indians--Education--British Columbia--Williams Lake--History.
      Shuswap Indians--Biography.
      Shuswap Indians--Crimes against.
    • Genre/Form: Autobiographies.
    • Edition:Printing dates vary.
    • Description:xx, 227 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
    • Summary:Like most Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph's Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph's Mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offenses of Bishop Hubert O'Connor, which took place during Sellars's student days, between 1962 and 1967, when O'Connor was the school principal. After the school's closure, those who had been forced to attend came from surrounding reserves and smashed windows, tore doors and cabinets from the wall, and broke anything that could be broken. Overnight their anger turned a site of shameful memory into a pile of rubble. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution's lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.
    • Additional formats:Also issued in electronic format.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780889227415
      0889227411
    • Contents:Foreword / Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Chief Bill Wilson)
      Preface: What pain have you suffered?
      My grandmother and others before me
      Sardis Hospital = Loneliness
      St. Joseph's Mission = Prison
      I get religion but what did it mean?
      The body was no temple
      A few good memories
      Pain, bullying, but also pleasure
      Home sweet home
      Summer of '67
      Life on the reserve
      One day I realized I had survived
      Becoming a leader
      Going to university
      Final thoughts
      Afterword / Wendy Wickwire.
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