Extended apologies: Sorry Day, an unusual holiday of repentance. (Australia).

There's little dispute about what happened: From the early 1800s until the late 1970s white Australians abducted perhaps 50,000 Aboriginal children from their families, then placed them in orphanages and foster homes where they were "civilized"--a program sanctioned by the government in the name of nation building.

But there is a dispute over how to respond to this history. The 1997 government publication Bringing Them Home, which detailed the grim story of the so-called Stolen Generations, labeled the program "genocide" because it aimed to eliminate ...

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