ir sexual orientation. Their feelings of alienation frequently led to depression, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency and suicide.
             Mick, Josh, and Trudy lost their souls and did not belong to either the Haisla community or the dominant Canadian society. They were sent to a residential school. When they were released from residential schools, they felt isolation not only from their own communities, but also from the western dominant society. Having the feeling of segregation from the both cultures, they often got involved in drug abuse and alcoholism. Through the assimilation process First Nations people lost their own identities; they were no longer First Nations people psychologically and emotionally. At a residential school, Uncle Mick and Josh and Aunt Trudy abandoned their language and learned English. They were educated not to think critically and to see themselves as inferior to European. Residential schools succeeded in removing large numbers of children away from their families and imposed Eurocentric values while attempting to sever any ties with the First Nations traditions, values, culture and way of life.
             Uncle Josh struggled with alcoholism to escape from the confliction resulted in sexual abuse and bad experience from a residential school (Queen of the North 212). He was not only alcoholic, but also became a sexual abuser: he sexually abused Pooch and Karaoke (Queen of the North 213). The problem was not ended there. Having dark and sad experience of being sexually abused by Josh, fourteen-year-old Pooch eventually ended his life by shooting himself (Monkey Beach 311). Negative effect of residential school carried over the next generation like genetically inherited disease.
             Mick was scarred from his years of with the residential school. After his years from the residential school, Mick became rebellious and actively involved in the American Indian Movement (Monkey Beach 56). He tried to find his so...