From 1819 to 1969, some 18,000 Native American children were taken from their parents and forced to attend U.S. boarding schools. Nearly 1,000 children died.
President Joe Biden is set to formally apologize Friday for the country’s role in a Native American boarding school system that ripped at least 18,000 Indigenous children from their families and led to nearly 1,000 deaths.It will be the first time a U.S. president has apologized for taking Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children and sending them to boarding schools that sought to assimilate them and dispossess their tribal nations of land.
It’s unclear what, if any, action will follow the apology. The Department of Interior is still working with tribal nations to repatriate the remains of children on federal lands, and many tribes are still at odds with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has refused to follow the federal law regulating the return of Native American remains of those still buried at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
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