Bev Sellars is chief of the Xat’sūll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She returned to the First Nations community of Soda Creek after an extended period of “visiting other territories.” While she was away, she earned a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. Sellars was employed by the UBC Law School and articled at the Vancouver law firm of Miller Thomson LLP. She decided a law career was not for her, and from September 2003 until her return to Soda Creek, she was employed by the B.C. Treaty Commission as a treaty process community information advisor. She was first elected chief of the Soda Creek Band 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.
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