A Canadian court held the government legally responsible for the suffering and life impairments caused to indigenous children cause by forcibly taking them from their parents and putting them into assimilationist boarding schools.

It is amazing that this continued as late as 1984.

The US had a similar policy of coercing indigenous children to attend assimilationist boarding schools, and this was only finally eliminated in 1978.

Another technique for forced assimilation was taking indigenous children away from their families and giving them to non-indigenous foster families.