The residential school experience is one major example of the way that white/settler culture has learned to annihilate. We learned this eradicative habit back in our own traditional lands, when some of our ancestors decided that they should commit genocide against some of our other ancestors. Its not a coincidence that many natives have turned to drink once the residential schools were closed, the habit of self annihilation once instilled is hard to break.... some people actually have the courage to attack the self rather than export their own insecurity.