Nationality Canadian Period 1980s-present | Name Bev Sellars Role Writer | |
Occupation First Nations chief, writer Notable works They Called Me Number One Books They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School | ||
Elders & Youth #3 - Bev Sellars, Author
Bev Sellars is a Canadian writer, who was a finalist for the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature for her book They Called Me Number One.
The chief of the Xat'sull First Nation at Soda Creek, British Columbia, she published They Called Me Number One in 2013 as a memoir of her childhood experience in the Indian residential school system. The book also won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Sellars was a student at the St. Joseph's Residential School in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She later studied history at the University of Victoria, and law at the University of British Columbia. First elected chief of Xat'sull in 1987, she has also served as an advisor to the British Columbia Treaty Commission.
