![]() ![]() ![]() Third, through the process of writing, Sellars felt she was “still disassembling the restrictive world in which” she used to live and wanted to move forward in that process. Second, Sellars wanted to share her experience with fellow survivors - those she knew who were suffering the same experiences. ![]() I experience joy in that we are now hearing survivors’ voices that had in the past been silenced.īev Sellars’ They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School details Sellars’ life from the time she was five years old until the age of 58 and she notes four reasons she felt compelled to write this book.įirst, Sellars wanted to recognize that in the early 1990s “our communities first began to explore and deal with the aftermath of the Indian residential schools.” I usually get very excited about reading a book written by a residential school survivor and this instance was no exception. ![]()
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