Price paid : the fight for First Nations survival / Bev Sellars ; foreword and excerpts by Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Hereditary Chief Bill Wilson).
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889229723 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xxvii, 209 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver : Talonbooks, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction - One. Indian givers - Two. The tilting of power - Three. Case study in colonial contact - Four. Workarounds and memorials - Five. Increasing containment and repression - Six. Political action renews - Seven. Aboriginal leaders and first ministers - Eight. The Indian Act and Indian Band governance - Nine. Re-establishing Aboriginal rights - Ten. Realities of life on the rez -- Conclusion. The tilting of power back to First Nations -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index -- Acknowledgements. |
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Topic Heading: | Aboriginal. Aboriginal. First Nations Canada. Indigenous collection |
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Bev Sellars is a former Chief and Councillor of the Xatâsull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. First elected chief of Xatâsull in 1987, a position she held from 1987-1993 and then from 2009-2015. She also worked as a community advisor for the BC Treaty Commission. Ms. Sellars served as the representative for the Secwepemc communities on the Cariboo Chilcotin Justice Inquiry in the early 1990s. Ms. Sellars has spoken out on racism and residential schools and on the environmental and social threats of mineral resources exploitation in her region.
Ms. Sellars is the author of They Called Me Number One, a memoir of her childhood experience in the Indian residential school system and its effects on three generations of women in her family, published in 2013 by Talon Books. The book won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness, was shortlisted for the 2014 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. Her book, Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival, published in 2016 by Talon Books, looks at the history of Indigenous rights in Canada from an Indigenous perspective. Sellars has a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. She is currently Chair of First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining (FNWARM) and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Indigenous Leadership Initiative (www.ilinationhood.ca).