Biden to apologise for Indigenous boarding school policy in US
Al Jazeera
Other countries including Canada and Australia have said sorry for previous policies of forced assimilation.
United States President Joe Biden will formally apologise for the government’s role in forcing Indigenous children into boarding schools where many were physically and sexually abused and nearly 1,000 died.
“I’m doing something I should have done a long time ago: to make a formal apology to the Indian nations for the way we treated their children for so many years,” Biden said as he left the White House on Thursday for Arizona.
Between 1869 and the 1960s, more than 18,000 Indigenous children — some as young as four — were forcibly taken from their families and put into the boarding school system.
The schools, often run by Christian churches, were part of the forced assimilation policy launched by Congress in 1819 as an effort to “civilise” Native Americans, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiian peoples.
Children were beaten, sexually abused and banned from speaking their language and acting in any way that reflected their culture. Many didn’t see their families for years.
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