Join award-winning author Bev Sellars to celebrate the launch of her highly anticipated new book, Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival.
Date/Time: Sep 22 2016, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, Norman Rothstein TheatreCost: $26.00
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Following her groundbreaking debut, They Called Me Number One, Sellars offers a personal, candid and eye opening clarification of misconceptions still widely believed about First Nations. Hear how North America’s indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world; uncover the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century; and explore how Indigenous land and resource rights are being re-established today.
About the Author: Bev Sellars was chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia, for more than 20 years, and she now serves as a member of its Council. Sellars was ?rst 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.
This event takes place on the traditional, unceded and occupied territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
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