You no doubt mean the "Arctic" polar people. The Antarctic polar people are flightless birds called "penguins".

The treatment of Arctic people in Canada didn't have as much tragedy as that of the US government's treatment of "Indians". Largely that was because they lived in or near very isolated fishing villages all along the Canadian Northern coast and survived by fishing in the summer and mostly on seal meat in the winter. So, nothing the Canadian "Eskimos" had was of any use or worth to either white Canadians immigrants as they moved north into the arctic or the Canadian government who largely left the natives alone. Similarily, the natives of the true north left the government alone by living in that harsh environment without expecting help or handouts from the Canadian government.

Getting to the treatment of native peoples (ie: "Indians) in Canada...
You have to realize that a lot of these so called "tragedies" that happened were done with the best of intentions. Canada had a residential school system whereby natives that were old enough to attend school were placed as residents in what were effectively Catholic "boarding schools". Those schools were set up so that native children would not be disadvantaged by illiteracy as their parents were. We don't understand that reasoning because nowadays almost everyone gets educated to Grade 10 or better so it's rare to find someone who is truly illiterate. Kids in school nowadays can't read like a Shakespearian actor and can't write like Chaucer, but they can understand what they read and write down what they think. People in Canada's government back then remember a time when the children of the poor would end up truly illiterate because their parents couldn't afford to send them to school. Farm women that were living in abusive relationships with their husbands had little recourse than to run off to the cities to become house maids to the wealthy. These women weren't stupid. They knew that they were caught in a cycle of advantage for the well educated and disadvantage for the poorly educated, and if the wealthy screwed them over as house maids, they often saw prostitution as the only way of breaking that cycle by making enough money to send their own children to school.

The residential school system in Canada was set up to save native children, both boys and girls, from that fate, but with any system, there were flaws. There were bad teachers that abused children by meting out inappropriate punishments, and even mental, physical and sexual abuse. But, facts be known, exactly the same things were going on at catholic schools and orphanages in southern Canada where orphaned white children were given an education, room and board. I kinda get upset about the natives all demanding reparations from the Canadian government because of things that happened to them when white kids growing up in catholic schools and orphanages cannot partake in the same plunder because the catholic church has shallower pockets and better lawyers.

The residential school system gave native children the basic living skills so they could make something of themselves in the white man's world if the chose to. They were able to read and write better than Canadian children (like my mother) who only got to Grade 3 in school before she had to quit for lack of money for books and school supplies. But, more importantly it empowered Canada's native youth. Being able to read, write and do arithmetic meant aboriginals could not be screwed out of the proper wages for their work. And, it made it possible for them to take leadership roles in their own communities, such as the chief of their tribe or the editor of a small newspaper. Then, for the cost of a small mimeograph machine, each small town could have it's own "newspaper", and that meant that people could exchange ideas with others in that small town, even if they were illiterate. As long as they knew someone who had been to a residential school, they had access to someone who could read and write for them. But most of all it restored law and order in the wilds of Canada because each residential school student was sufficiently educated to be able to tell his father, brother or uncle whether the price paid for his goods or services was what was agreed to and above board. In truth, the easiest way for the Canadian government to have abused natives in Canada would have been to keep them illiterate.

The residential school system did an awful lot of good for an awful lot of Canadian aboriginal children, but largely because of weak kneed Government lawyers, that system is now being raked over the coals.

Now there's money to be had in being abused, and so natives are rising up against the system that "tore" children from their families, savagely deprived them of their culture and heritage. The actual physical, mental or sexual abuse is one thing, but natives that weren't abused also get a piece of the action by bellowing how they were torn from their families and deprived of their culture, and they want to cash in on that "abuse" too. That way everyone gets a pay day. Sorry, but I believe far more good has been done by educating those native children in the three R's than has been undone by the abuse that definitely happened to a small number of those children.

It's a cash cow that every native in Canada wants to milk. But, that's just one man's opinion.