![]() ![]() Parents who did not allow their children to attend the school faced going to jail. Residents of the school were identified as numbers. Not only was she forced to live away from her family for 10 months of the year, but her name was also taken from her. Her experiences in the residential school were also those of her mother and grandmother, although like so many others they never talked about it. Joseph’s Mission at Williams Lake are just a few of the inhumane experiences Sellars writes about in her book, They Called Me Number One. “All roads led back to the residential schools,” said Bev Sellars.īeing deloused with DDT, eating food unfit for human consumption and enduring the strapping that was the method of discipline at St. When her tribal council at Soda Creek started looking at the social dysfunction and chaos in its Northern British Columbia community in the 1990s, there was no escaping its source. ![]()
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