Genocide is defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. This includes forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. During colonization of the Americas many Indian tribes died do to starvation, massacres, and slavery. But the genocide of Indigenous groups didn’t stop there; in fact it continues to this day. Indigenous children are removed from their families and placed into the foster care system at a much higher rate than any other ethnic group. Most of the time the children are not placed with other Indigenous families and are instead placed into white middle class families. By placing Indigenous children into foster care the Indigenous population
