Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival

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Awards for Bev Sellars’ “They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School”

2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature, third prize

Shortlisted for the 2014 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BritishColumbia Book Prizes)

More than forty weeks on theBC Bestsellers list in 2013 and 2014!

“Price Paid: “The Fight for First Nations Survival””is the second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars. Based on a popular presentation Sellars oftengave to treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators, “Price Paid “relates Canadian history from a First Nations point of view.

The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America’s indigenous peoples have shared with the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told, personal take on the history of Aboriginal rights in Canada.

Bev Sellars was first elected chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1987. She has spoken out on behalf of her community on racism and residential schools and on the environmental and social threats of mineral resource exploitation in her region. Having earned a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia, she has served as an advisor to the B.C. Treaty Commission.”