US apologizes for Native American schools

In a speech in Arizona on October 24, President Joe Biden issued a formal apology to Native Americans for the federal government’s role in operating boarding schools that mistreated children over a 150-year period. What happened at the schools? From 1819 to 1969, at least 18,000 children were taken from Indigenous families and forced to attend more than 400 boarding schools across 37 states. (Indigenous means the first to inhabit a place.) A federal investigation launched by Deb Haaland, the secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), found that the schools used mental and physical abuse to try to erase the children’s tribal identities and cultural heritage. At least 973 students died. What did Biden say? Biden is the first President to publicly apologize for the government’s role in…

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