President Biden is expected to issue an historic apology Friday for the 150-year government effort to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. A federal investigation found that Native children at these schools endured physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. At least 973 died.
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Central to that effort was dissolving Native families and severing generational ties that had kept their cultures alive despite being forced onto reservations. The heaviest concentrations of the schools were in states with some of the largest Native populations: Oklahoma, Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, Minnesota and the Dakotas. But the schools were in every region of the U.S. and students — some as young as 4 — were often sent to schools far from their homes.
Former students recounted harmful and often degrading treatment they endured at the hands of teachers and administrators while separated from their families. Their descendants spoke about traumas that have passed down through generations and are manifest in broken relationships, substance abuse and other social problems that plague reservations today.
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