They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School | 
pickThis memoir is written in a way that places the information into you brain while you read and then when you put it down allows the information to flood in and take hold of your thoughts and emotions so that you can really understand the horrifying truth of the residential school system in Canada. During the Book Interrupted podcast we spoke a lot about the factual style of the book and the many reasons why it was so “readable”. It‘s a must read.
pickThis is a first hand account of how the residential school system in Canada affected three generations in one family. By retelling her own experience, Bev paints a clear picture of how the government and church systematically worked together to wipe out a culture. Most Canadians know of residential schools, but we only have a hazy understanding. Bev is a survivor and she still bears the scars, scars that will take generations to get over.
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pickI‘m really glad I read this memoir. Aboriginal people suffered so many injustices, but there were some things I never knew. I knew there would be some form of schooling set up for aboriginal people, but I never heard of residential schools or their conditions. Education was not what the priests, nuns, and teachers had in mind for these students. There were so many parts of this book that made me so angry because I‘ve heard this story before.
