![]() ![]() In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only-not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. ![]() These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings forced separation from family, language, and culture and strict discipline. Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)īurt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner) ![]()
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