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October 25, 2024

Biden to Issue Formal Apology for Gov't-Run Native American Boarding Schools
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President Biden is visiting the Gila Crossing Community School in
Arizona today, where he will issue a formal apology for government-run
Native American boarding schools, which separated Indigenous families
and sought to eliminate Native cultures. The U.S. government operated
hundreds of these schools from 1819 to 1969, where children reported
severe physical and psychological abuse. An Interior Department
investigation this year found nearly 1,000 children died while at the
schools. Biden will be accompanied by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland,
the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary. Haaland is a member of
the Pueblo of Laguna.


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