Biden apologizes to Native Americans for ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy

Disappointing comments that ignore the reality, the history and the concealment of these practices. There has been a great deal of government abuse and cover-up. Similar transpired in Canada. Canada: 751 unmarked graves found at residential school - BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243 Syphilis testing was conducted on 400 Black Americans during this same period that took decades to reveal. Look up the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. U.S. history is not always pretty which is why it needs to be taught. President Biden appointed DEB HAALAND who has been instrumental in revealing this ugly history - try researching before posting attacks.

The TULSA OKLAHOMA RACE MASSACRE was concealed until President Biden highlighted it & local efforts have been made to document the killings. Maybe you should focus your outrage on MONTANA RACIST & BIGOT Tim Sheehy. From RAW STORY: In an exclusive interview with Raw Story ahead of Biden’s Friday announcement in Arizona, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland gushed over the president’s formal apology. “Oh my gosh, I never thought I would see this in my lifetime,” Haaland told Raw Story. “Decades ago, when I was sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table and talking to her about boarding schools, you know, she didn't tell me everything, right? I knew there was more to what she was telling me.” As an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, Haaland is the first Native American in American history to serve as a cabinet secretary. For her, it’s personal. That’s partly why she launched the administration’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative in 2021, which is culminating with this formal apology to Indigenous communities on behalf of the United States of America. The former New Mexico Democratic congresswoman’s grandma was sent to a Catholic boarding school some 125 miles away from her home, but “it could have been 1,000 miles because her dad only had a horse and wagon.” “She told me he was able to only visit her twice during the five years she was there. Her time there, her dad's time at boarding school, that affected my life, and I didn't realize how much it affected my life right until I got a little bit older,” Haaland said. “So this is important.” Over in Montana, the lack of an apology is also thundering across Indian Country.  

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President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country. Read more: https://bit.ly/3NBM0Lc #biden #news #joebiden Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home