GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY — President Joe Biden apologized to Native Americans on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in creating and operating Indian boarding schools that for 150 years aimed to assimilate Native children by taking them from their families and erasing their languages and culture.
“The federal government has never formally apologized for what happened until today. I formally apologize,” Biden said to cheers.
“It did take place,” the president continued. “Darkness erases nothing. Some injustices can’t be buried. We must know the good, the bad, the truth. We do not erase history; we learn from history, and we remember.”
“The federal government has never formally apologized for what happened until today. I formally apologize,” Biden said to cheers.
“It did take place,” the president continued. “Darkness erases nothing. Some injustices can’t be buried. We must know the good, the bad, the truth. We do not erase history; we learn from history, and we remember.”
