Bev Sellars

Bev Sellars: Author of the award-winning memoir, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School, and now retired as chief of the Xatsu’ll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia, Bev Sellars holds 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 BC Treaty Commission. She was first elected chief in 1987 and 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.