They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School - Sellars, Bev

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In the first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph's Mission at Williams Lake, British Columbia, Xat'sull chief Bev Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended the school, interweaving personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. She tell of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings, often with a leather strap, and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution where children were confined and denigrated for failure to be White and Roman Catholic. Sellars breaks her silence about the institution's lasting effects and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.
Near Fine
Soft cover
Talonbooks
2013
Vancouver, BC