Years after forced adoptions, Canada to pay $600 million to indigenous people

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Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2017 · News & Politics

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DescriptionFor a period between the 1960s and 1980s, a Canadian government program forcibly separated indigenous children from their families and put them up for adoption around the world. In a bid to address that injustice, Canada on Friday agreed to pay $600 million in legal settlements. Ian Austen, who has been covering the story for The New York Times, joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Ottawa.

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