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They Called Me Number One

Bev Sellars

Start date: November 1, 2023

Finish date: November 30, 2023

Discussion: Non-Fiction Classics

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Shelves: genre-non-fiction, genre-biography-autobio-memoir, classics-published-50-years-ago, subject-history, theme-native-american, location-canada, subject-witness-attestation

This story takes place in Canada, but the occurrences described within happened systemically over decades throughout Canada and the U.S., and apparently in Australia as well, and ended only within the last generation. This is not just systemic racism, which is bad enough, but what is described is a cultural holocaust. Children were ripped away from their homes and families for nearly the entirety of their formative years, not allowed to speak in their native languages, nor learn or practice nati ...more

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