Detribalization is known as the dissolution of one’s tribal customs by the interaction and integration with another culture. This definition of detribalization is profusely seen within the writings of Emily Carr’s autobiography, Klee Wyck. Going in depth of one of Carr’s stories, Sophie, we can see that detribalization is proficiently incorporated into her story. Carr paints us a picture of detribalization when she talks about the sale of the Native’s merchandise to the settlers, how the Natives switch from their mother tongue to English and that Natives begin to go to church. Firstly, the integration of the settler’s religion into the Native’s tribal culture demonstrates the extent of deterioration of the Native’s culture. Before the settlers arrived to the mainland, the Natives had their own sense of “religion”. They would base everything on how they acquired food and have rituals that helped them with life situations. When the settlers arrived they bullied their way of life into the minds and souls of the Native’s making them think that we, the settlers, have come here to help the Natives live a “better” life. For instance, when Sophie arrives at Carr’s Vancouver shop she…show more content… When a tribe’s rituals are submerged beneath that of the settler’s rituals, we can see that there is a great lose of culture and a struggle to pass on any traditions that links the next generation in the tribe to their ancestors. For example, when Sophie asked Carr to “go church house now?” (Carr, 32) and afterwards Carr paints us a mental picture of how the Church looks, we can see that this Church is out of place. Usually Native tribes worship the earth, which has been around for billions of years, in all of it’s glory. But when the settlers invaded we see the Natives worshipping within a Church, which is unorthodox for the Natives and leads them to lose their own culture in the