Stolen Generations

A blind aboriginal singer is topping the charts in Australia. Reporter Peter Hadfield brings us this profile on singer-songwriter Gurrumul.

Canada’s prime minister apologized today to Canadian Indians who survived a harsh assimilation policy; for more than a century, Canada’s native children were sent to state-funded Christian schools where many were physically and sexually abused

Australia’s apology today has put a spotlight on government offers of apology elsewhere. In the US, Senator Sam Brownback has sponsored legislation aimed at a formal apology to Native Americans for their suffering.

Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today offered a historic apology to the country’s aboriginal people for the suffering they’ve endured at the hands of the government, but some aborigines say they want more than an apology