Bev Sellars est une ancienne conseill\u00e8re et chef de la Premi\u00e8re Nation de Xat\u2019sull (Soda Creek) \u00e0 Williams Lake, en Colombie-Britannique. Premi\u00e8re chef \u00e9lue de Xat\u2019sull en 1987, elle occupe le poste de 1987 \u00e0 1993 puis de 2009 \u00e0 2015. Elle obtient un dipl\u00f4me en histoire de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Victoria (1997) et elle dit : \u00ab Le d\u00e9clic est venu quand j\u2019\u00e9tudiais l\u2019histoire de l\u2019Europe \u00bb. Elle obtient ensuite un dipl\u00f4me en droit de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la Colombie-Britannique. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 conseill\u00e8re \u00e0 la Commission des trait\u00e9s de la C.-B. et repr\u00e9sentante pour les communaut\u00e9s Secwepemc sur la commission d\u2019enqu\u00eate sur l\u2019administration de la justice Cariboo Chilcotin du d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1990. Bev est aujourd\u2019hui pr\u00e9sidente de la First Nation Women Advocating for Responsible Mining (FNWARM) qui surveille les activit\u00e9s mini\u00e8res propos\u00e9es et existantes en Colombie-Britannique.<\/p>\n
Sellars milite depuis longtemps et s\u2019est prononc\u00e9e sur le sujet du racisme et des pensionnats indiens ainsi que sur les menaces environnementales et sociales que pose l\u2019exploitation des ressources min\u00e9rales. Sellars est l\u2019auteure de\u00a0They Called Me Number One<\/em>, une autobiogrpahie d\u00e9crivant son enfance dans le syst\u00e8me de pensionnats indiens et ses effets sur trois g\u00e9n\u00e9rations de femmes dans sa famille, publi\u00e9 en 2013 par Talonbooks. Le livre a remport\u00e9 le prix George-Ryga 2014 pour la sensibilisation aux enjeux soci\u00e9taux, \u00e9tait sur la liste courte du prix non romanesque Hubert-Evans et a \u00e9t\u00e9 finaliste pour le Prix Burt pour les Premi\u00e8res nations, les M\u00e9tis et la litt\u00e9rature inuite la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e. Son livre,\u00a0Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival<\/em>, publi\u00e9 en 2016 par Talonbooks, examine l\u2019histoire des droits des Autochtones au Canada dans une perspective autochtone (voir l\u2019interview de\u00a0Prism International<\/a>). Elle a re\u00e7u le prix honorant les anciens \u00e9tudiants \u00e9m\u00e9rites de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Victoria en 2016-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1647,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-14792","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/14792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}