Sellars, Bev,

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]. - Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2013. - xx, 227 p. : ill., map, geneal. table ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph's Mission at Williams Lake, British Columbia, Zat'sull chief Bev Sellars tells of three generation of women who attended the school, interweaving personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own"--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN: 9780889227415 (tr. pbk.) 0889227411 (tr. pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shuswap Indians
Off-reservation boarding schools
Indian children
racism
residential school
Indians of North America-British Columbia-Williams Lake

Dewey Class. No.: 371.829/97943