Canada seeks to compensate indigenous taken from families

FILE – In this June 11, 2008 file photo, Assembly of First Nations Chief Phil Fontaine responds to the government’s apology for more than a century of abuse and cultural loss involving Indian residential schools, at the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 first nation children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand, File)