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Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children
PHOENIX — President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation. “I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did,”…
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Biden to formally apologize for Indian boarding school system
President Joe Biden is slated to issue a formal apology on Friday for a government-run boarding school system that forcibly separated generations of Native American children from their families. “I’m heading to do something that should have been done a long time ago: make a formal apology to the Indian nations for the way we treated…