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

Autor Bev Sellars
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2013
Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition, beginning at the age of five, Sellars was isolated for two years at Coqualeetza Indian Turberculosis Hospital in Sardis, British Columbia, nearly six hours’ drive from home. The trauma of these experiences has reverberated throughout her life.

The first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph’s Mission at Williams Lake, BC, Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended the school, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. She tells of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings, often with a leather strap, and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution where children were confined and denigrated for failure to be White and Roman Catholic.

Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph’s Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph’s Mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hubert O’Connor, which took place during Sellars’s student days, between 1962 and 1967, when O’Connor was the school principal. After the school’s closure, those who had been forced to attend came from surrounding reserves and smashed windows, tore doors and cabinets from the wall, and broke anything that could be broken. Overnight their anger turned a site of shameful memory into a pile of rubble.

In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution’s lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780889227415
ISBN-10: 0889227411
Pagini: 227
Ilustrații: 12 B&W photographs
Dimensiuni: 147 x 209 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Talon Books
Locul publicării:Canada

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Cuprins

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD ¿ Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla

INTRODUCTION
What Pain Have You Suffered?

Chapter 1
My Grandmother
First Memories
My Grandfather (xp¿e7e)
Grasshoppers Looking For Work
Radios, Dances, Electricity And Running Water
Uncle Leonard
My Brother Ray Was Born in Prison
Sardis Hospital = Loneliness

Chapter 2
St. Joseph¿s Mission = Prison
Families Separated
Duties At The Mission
The Food They Gave Us You Wouldn¿t Give Your Dog
I¿d Rather Kiss a Dog Than an Indian

Chapter 3
I Get Religion But What Did It Mean?
Sexual Abuse
Mental Abuse ¿ A Lifelong Sentence
Forbidden Languages

Chapter 4
Health Care?
Uncle Ernie
Teachers
Gangs and Acceptable Touching
Boot Camp Style Supervision
Letters and Visitors Were Screened by the Authorities

Chapter 5
Pain and Pleasure
Some Good Memories
The Puffed Wheat Bandits and Other Runaways

Chapter 6
Home Sweet Home
Christmas
The Shame of Puberty
The RCMP, Priests, Indian Nurses and Indian Agents
The Training I Received to Be a Productive Part of Society

Chapter 7
The Summer of ¿67 - Big Changes in My Life
Going to School With Whites and The Cache Creek Motors Bus
White People Can Be Stupid?
Living With Dysfunction
Family Chaos
Leaving the Safety of Gram¿s House
My Epiphany at Sixteen
My Dark Years
Grooming for Violence

Chapter 8
My Attempted Suicide and Other Attempts
Jacinda, Scott and Tony Mack, My Saviors
Stepping Off the Rez
Deaths From Car Accidents
Finally ¿ An Education
The Turning Points: Ernie Phillip and a 25 Cent Book

Chapter 9
Becoming a "Leader"
Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry
Examining the Aftermath of the Residential Schools
Anger
Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla

Chapter 10
Indians ¿ An Industry With No Product
Don¿t Ever Think I Don¿t Miss You, Bev
Institutions and Aboriginal People
A.I.M. and Other Political Teachings
Going to University
Final Thoughts ¿ for Now