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.
