"They Called Me Number One is from my perspective necessary reading across the generations."
--Jean Barman

"Deeply personal, sorrowful and ultimately triumphal, They Called Me Number One is an important addition to the literature on residential schools, and Canada's reckoning with its colonial past."
--the Winnipeg Free Press

"Sellars has given the readers an insight that we needed to hear."
--Rabble.ca
Bev Sellars: Bev Sellars is Chief of the the Xat'sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She 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.