President Biden on Friday delivered a formal apology from the government for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative that lasted until 1969.
President Biden on Friday offered a “long overdue” formal apology from the government for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, describing it as “one of the most horrific chapters in American history.”
The U.S. Department of the Interior says the program, which lasted over a 150-year period that ended in 1969, established 408 schools across 37 states to “culturally assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children by forcibly removing them from their families, communities, languages, religions and cultural beliefs.”
“After 150 years, the United States government eventually stopped the program.
