President Joe Biden is scheduled to issue a formal apology Friday for a government-run boarding school system that forcibly separated generations of Native American children from their families.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens to testimony from students who attended Native American boarding schools, at the Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, Okla., on July 9, 2022.
In June 2021, Haaland launched an initiative to investigate the federal Indian boarding school system and shed light on its traumas.
An initial report on the system published in 2022 found that hundreds of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died attending Indian boarding schools run or supported by the U.S. government.
The report this year urged the federal government to both establish a national memorial to acknowledge the experiences of those in the boarding schools and to apologize to those harmed by the policy.
Persons:
Joe Biden, Biden, Chip Somodevilla, Deb Haaland, Deborah Parker, Haaland, ”, Sarah Phipps, Chuck Hoskin Jr, Biden’s, ” Hoskin, “
Organizations:
Getty, National Native American Boarding School, Coalition, Indian, Riverside Indian School, USA, Cherokee, Interior Department, U.S .
Locations:
Arizona, Pueblo, Laguna, American, Phoenix, Anadarko, U.S, Alaska