Comment: At least the one redeeming thing that we learned from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is that the dysfunction in Native homes in this era came about as a direct result of the abuses -primarily sexual- that children in the residential schools experienced at the hands of settler clergy and staff.  Essentially,  these abused children grew up and moved home where the abuse they learned and internalized was passed on to the next generation, and so on.  If it wasn't for the settlers creating this horrible circumstance with their social meddling, there never would have been a problem, as many Native families were quite successful prior to the residential school period.  One always hears stories about mutual respect for persons and property in the early part of the 20th century, to a major sea change in the latter half of the century.  clearly, that is what the combined residential school experience and subsequant scoop created.