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Image courtesy of Talonbooks Publishing
Image courtesy of Talonbooks Publishing

Publication of They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

2013
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This was the first full-length memoir to be published by a former student of St. Joseph's Residential School. Bev Sellars gives an account of three generations of women who attended the school, her grandmother, her mother and herself. She “tells of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings . . . and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution.” (publisher)

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