Proposed class-action alleges abuse, cultural devastation at Canadian Indigenous group homes

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that “was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged.”The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken “to live with strangers – sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities.”