They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at An Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, eBook and Audiobook CD formats.

"Bev Sellars, chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, has won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her book They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Talonbooks 2013)."

"A third-generation Indian Residential School survivor, Sellers poignantly illustrates her personal struggles and those of her family and community, the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake"

University of Victoria. "Bev Sellars is a former councillor and chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia."

The Georgia Straight. "Bev Sellars has shown how historians shortchanged indigenous achievements."

PRISM International. "Now an author, her first book [...] won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, took third prize in the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature and spent more than forty weeks on the BC bestseller list."

"Her memoir provides invaluable insight into the enduring effects of a tragic and shameful part of our collective past, and also helps to begin the process of healing."

"Decolonizing mind and soul: 'They Called Me Number One' is a powerful read about residential schools and systemic racism"

"Residential schools are a dark period in Canadian history that continue to cast a long shadow over our country."