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Carregando... They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (edição: 2013)de Bev Sellars
Informações da ObraThey Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School de Bev Sellars
![]() Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. ![]() ![]() I appreciated this very readable book much more than I anticipated. It was especially meaningful for me as she grew up near the same small town I grew up in. Her daughter was in my high school class at one point. I suggested my parents read it, and they did so as well; I knew they'd know a few people and the places in the book also This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways. In this memoir of abuse countered with courage, Bev Sellars tells her story of life growing up in an Indian residential school. As is required of all Indian children, Bev is taken to this school at an early age, seven, and forced to stay there away from her family and continuously be abused and beaten. The story that Sellars weaves is heart wrenching and empowering in the same breath. When I received this book, I did not expect to enjoy it. I didn't see what could be so interesting about a memoir of a girl at school. Little did I know about what was to come. Right out of the gate, Sellars gave her family's history; none of which was boring. She continued on her journey of narrative weaving her grandmother's and her mother's stories right alongside hers. This gave an even deeper feeling to the memoir. It was like reading three people's life stories in one book. I was very inspired by this memoir and I would say that everyone should read this. Skepticism will sail out the window after the first chapter of reading. This empowering memoir will most definitely get many more read throughs during its time in my personal library. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, 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. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers onlyâ??not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her familyâ??from substance abuse to suicide attemptsâ??and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Number One comes at a time of recognitionâ??by governments and society at largeâ??that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them. Bev Sellars is chief of the Xatsu'll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. She has served as an advisor to the British Columbia Treaty C Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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