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They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school  Cover Image Book Book

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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  • ISBN: 9780889227415 (Paper)
  • ISBN: 0889227411 (Paper)
  • Physical Description: xx, 227 p. : ill., maps, ports., geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : Talonbooks, 2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Sellars, Bev, 1955-
Sellars, Bev, 1955- > Family.
St. Joseph's Mission (Williams Lake, B.C.) > History.
Shuswap Indians > Education > British Columbia > Williams Lake > History.
Indians of North America > British Columbia > Residential schools.
Shuswap Indians > Biography.
Shuswap Indians > Crimes against.
Topic Heading: Indigenous creators.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses

Foreword xiii
Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla
Preface What Pain Have You Suffered? xix
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
xxiii
Map of First Nations Attending St. Joseph's Mission
xxv
Six Generations 3(20)
Chapter 1 My Grandmother and Others Before Me
23(6)
Chapter 2 Sardis Hospital = Loneliness
29(14)
Chapter 3 St. Joseph's Mission = Prison
43(14)
Chapter 4 I Get Religion But What Did It Mean?
57(16)
Chapter 5 The Body Was No Temple
73(12)
Chapter 6 A Few Good Memories
85(16)
Chapter 7 Pain, Bullying, But Also Pleasure
101(14)
Chapter 8 Home Sweet Home
115(18)
Chapter 9 Summer of '67
133(12)
Chapter 10 Life on the Reserve
145(18)
Chapter 11 One Day I Realized I Had Survived
163(16)
Chapter 12 Becoming a Leader
179(10)
Chapter 13 Going to University
189(4)
Chapter 14 Final Thoughts
193(8)
Afterword 201(14)
Wendy Wickwire
Notes 215
Index


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