Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival

Price Paid untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations and addresses misconceptions still widely believed today.

The second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars, Price Paid is based on a popular presentation Sellars often told to treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators.

The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of Aboriginal rights in Canada and Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view.


Author: Bev Sellars
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 11/08/2016
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780889229723
ISBN10: 0889229724
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- History | Canada | General

About the Author
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.