Summer Book Club

Hello fellow bookworms.

The book for our August 27th Book Club meeting is Price Paid - The Fight for First Nations Survival by Bev Sellars. 

Bev Sellars served as the Chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation near Williams Lake from 1987 to 1993 and from 2009 to 2015. She brings us another marvelous book drawing on her and her people’s experiences with Indian policy since the beginning. While her first book, They Called Me Number One, explored the generational impact of residential schools on her family, Price Paid nicely explores generational resistance to and the impact of colonialism on her family, nation, and other Indigenous peoples in Canada. While dealing with horrendous aspects of Canadian colonialism, this book does not leave one depressed or saddened. Instead, the book leaves the reader with the knowledge that despite Canada’s dark past and present, their stories have a resilience that needs to be told. Overall, any reader will learn more about Indigenous-newcomer relations which will only help heal generational and racial divisions within Canada. By knowing the full history, according to Bev Sellars, Canadians will be able to come to terms with themselves and Indigenous peoples.

Please join us at 7pm to discuss, over wine (or tea) and nibblies, this eye-opener of a book.