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The paper describes how Carol Geddes, in "Growing Up Native," depicts the trauma of residential school as a defining aspect of Aboriginal history in the Canadian north. Through a process of causal analysis this essay argues the thesis that while the residential schools were physically, culturally and psychologically damaging for generations of Aboriginal youth, an examination of the context will reveal that systemic racism was the ultimate cause of this trauma. The paper analyzes how the residential schools existed as instruments of both state policy and religious missionary motives within a mainstream Canadian society that considered Aboriginals inferior to whites.

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