Number One comes at a time of recognition-by governments and society at large-that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them. Josephs Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential schools lasting effects on her and her. Joseph’s Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school’s lasting effects on her and her family-from substance abuse to suicide attempts-and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only-not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. These institutions endeavored to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings forced separation from family, language, and culture and strict discipline. Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu’ll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. They Called Me Number One Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
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