![]() ![]() The church-run residential school implemented harsh discipline, religious conditioning and involuntary separation from family and cultural practice. Joseph’s Mission in Williams Lake, B.C., from 1962 to 1967. Chief Bev Sellars’s memoir sheds light on the Canadian residential schooling system and recognizes the First Nations people who are continuing to heal following their traumatic childhoods. “I am going to focus on the destructive ‘programming’ we received as children and how it has affected our adult lives,” said Sellars in an email interview. Sellars will share details from her memoir, which illustrates three generations of women, including experiences from her own life, as well as those of her mother and grandmother. 16, Chief Bev Sellars of Soda Creek First Nation will perform a reading from her book They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School in the First Peoples House on campus. ![]()
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