Therefore it could be said that colonization is comprised of two primary aspects - physical and mental. Prior to colonization Indigenous peoples were free and sovereign nations. Through colonization Indigenous people are deprived of their freedom and live in an oppressed situation. In order to be liberated from this oppressive state the process of colonization must be reversed. That is, it must begin with the mental aspects and move towards the physical.
Colonization is always destructive.
This destruction becomes internalized within the Indigenous person. This includes rape, murder, assault, sexual abuse of children, suicide, etc. The irrational violence within the colonized INdigenous person results from the oppressed conditions that colonization imposes upon people. Some of this comes from specific methods used by the colonizing nation, for example Residential schools, the reserve system, etc. Individualism - self interest With the breakdown of the nation and the family, fragmentation and competition has come to replace the sense of unity, community and togetherness that was once the basis of Indigenous society.