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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graham Lee Brewer and Sejal Govindarao

Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

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President Joe Biden did something Friday that no other sitting U.S. president has: He apologized for the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children endured in boarding schools at the hands of the federal government.

For 150 years the U.S. removed Indigenous children from their homes and sent them away to the schools, where they were stripped of their cultures, histories and religions and beaten for speaking their languages.

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