By the early 1900s, the Australian government knew that the native Australians, the so-called Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders did not fit into the Australian mainstream on many counts. First of all, the locals were the wrong colour. On top of that, the immigrants thought that these peoples had strange lifestyles. They were, by and large, nomads. They spoke their own languages (which lacked scripts). They ate anything that moved, which is useful in a dry, desert land. They used interesting psychotropic drugs for religious purposes, and all-round entertainment, rather than sticking to good old alcohol (which they had not learnt to distil). They tended to avoid transactions involving money, preferring to barter instead.
Perhaps worst of all, the original inhabitants of Australia had their own creation stories of a Dreamtime where the Great Gecko did magical things. Those stories differed very significantly from the Christian canon, which the immigrants brought with them.
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Despite the prejudices, a large number of mixed-race children had also been born to Aboriginal women - gender ratios in early Australia were massively skewed due to a larger number of male immigrants. The children were generally brought up by their mothers and not acknowledged by their fathers.
Many good church-going, beer-swilling, sheep-farming Australians (and others who did not conform to the stereotypes) believed that such heathens were unfit to bring up children. In fact, that was the prevailing view in the early 1900s and it enabled what, over the years, became a programme now referred to as the "Stolen Generations".
Over a 70-year period, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal and mixed-race children were forcibly taken from their parents. The kids were shoved into badly-run orphanages and the parents were ruthlessly prevented from contacting the children again. In some early cases, the parents were simply killed out of hand to prevent complications. The children were then relentlessly "civilised". That is, they were taught the basic 3Rs, and to recite prayers, and to despise their ancestral lifestyles. Most of them ended up living nasty, brutish and short lives. But they did go to church and they used the white man's drug, alcohol, in preference to their own ancestral exotics. Many of the "Stolen Generations" ended up on the dole but at least that meant that they understood the value of money.
Similar transformational "civilising" programmes have been instituted by colonisers at various times, in various parts of the Americas. The pattern is usually similar: herd the parents onto designated reservations, or into isolated, demarcated areas. Find reasons and pretexts to take the kids away. (The reasons may often be valid in that there may be high levels of domestic violence, substance abuse, etc. on the reservation). Deny the parents access to the children. Beat a new set of values, especially including religious values, into the children. Hope that the children will be more "mainstream" in their attitudes and lifestyles, whatever passes for mainstream.
None of those experiments seem to have worked anywhere because there is an inherent flaw. A society that thinks this way is inherently racist. The products of such programmes are turned into poor copies of the mainstream and they are crippled by the discrimination they continue to face everywhere. They tend to have poor quality of life indicators (less education, lower per capita income, shorter lifespans, high substance abuse, high suicide rates) compared to the norms of those countries. But such programmes continue to be justified by sundry bigots.
The Australian experiment only ended in the 1970s. It took another five decades before the government was sufficiently shamed into handing out an apology. The apology remains controversial. There are Australians, who believe that the Stolen Generations programmes were justified because after all, the kids did learn to say their prayers. Any resemblance to recent events involving tribal girls in Assam is surely coincidental.