Of course all this assumes that had the children been kept on the reserves they would have maintained their Indian culture and grown up to be healthy well adjusted adults.  We know from recent experience that that is not so.  Since the scoop policy was abandoned over 20 years ago with a new emphasis placed on keeping  orphans within their native communities the circumstances of these children has not improved and in fact it has become arguably much worse. As of 2012 there were some 250,000 children in government care and of these fully 200,000 with native kids.  Think about it; of a group making up only 3% of the country's population it accounted for 80% of all the kids in care i.e. under guardianship or foster care.  In many cases it was single grandmothers that were raising their grandchildren in poverty and filth often surrounded by other relatives addled by drug and alcohol addictions who were as likely to abuse the children as to care for them. Indian culture maybe, desirable not.