President Biden is expected to issue a formal apology for the federal government’s Native American boarding schools during a visit to Arizona on Friday, according to the governor of a Native American tribe.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis told NPR that the formal apology is coming as part of Biden’s first official visit to an Indigenous community as president.
Also traveling with the president is Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who has also visited the tribe as a part of her “” tour aimed at giving survivors “the opportunity to share with the federal government their experiences in federal Indian boarding schools for the first time.”that confirmed at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools in the system.
“There’s going to be a sense of redemption, of confirmation, of what these boarding school survivors have been through,” he said.schools across the country and provided support for more than 1,000 others, according to the Interior department’s investigation. The goal was complete cultural assimilation.
The landmark visit by the president, which comes less than two weeks before Election Day, fulfills a promise Biden made to tribal leaders two years ago.
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