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A review by pandaspages
They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
4.0
This is such an important read.
I shouldn’t be surprised that I live in a country that tore indigenous families apart by forcing their children in residential schools. And in those schools the children were abused, neglected, assaulted, bullied, brain washed and beaten for speaking their native language and being themselves.
My interest about learning more about residential schools was peaked when I read the book “Good Morning Monster” by Catherine Gildiner. One of her patients was forced to attend a residential school as a child and years later as an adult was wrestling with the lasting effects the time there had on him. I recommend this book by Sellars and Gildiner’s book as well.
I shouldn’t be surprised that I live in a country that tore indigenous families apart by forcing their children in residential schools. And in those schools the children were abused, neglected, assaulted, bullied, brain washed and beaten for speaking their native language and being themselves.
My interest about learning more about residential schools was peaked when I read the book “Good Morning Monster” by Catherine Gildiner. One of her patients was forced to attend a residential school as a child and years later as an adult was wrestling with the lasting effects the time there had on him. I recommend this book by Sellars and Gildiner’s book as well.