indigenous peoples foundation.y went to school programs for teachers who were supposed to lead indigenous children to the light of civilization. teaching was naturally carried out exclusively in norwegian. at the beginning of the 20th century, forced norwegianization was supplemented by boarding schools, where children were forcibly taken, torn away from their families, so that they would quickly forget their native language and culture. this policy continued in norway. until the 21st century , peoples received minority status with rights only in the nineties, and then because of the opening of the archives, in which it became known to the norwegian state program, the mission against vagrants. case histories stored in the archive indicates that the mission resorted to forced sterilization of women until the seventies; how many women became victims of this crime is still unknown, since access to the mission’s archives is still extremely difficult. and in many cases, the victims may not have been aware of the surgica