PHOENIX: US President Joe Biden delivered a historic apology Friday (Oct 25) for one of many nation’s “most horrific chapters”: abducting Native American youngsters from their households and inserting them in authorities boarding faculties to erase their tradition.
From the early 1800s till the Seventies, the USA ran tons of of Indian boarding faculties throughout the nation to forcibly assimilate Native youngsters into European settler tradition, together with conversion to Christianity.
A current authorities report revealed harrowing situations of bodily, psychological, and sexual abuse, together with the deaths of almost a thousand youngsters.
“I formally apologize, as president of the USA of America, for what we did,” he mentioned in an impassioned speech on the Gila River Indian Group in Laveen Village, Arizona that was streamed reside by the White Home.
He referred to as the roughly 150 years the varsity system existed one of many “most horrific chapters in American historical past” and a “sin on our soul”.
“I do know no apology can or will make up for what was misplaced throughout the darkness of the federal boarding college coverage,” he continued. “In the present day, we’re lastly transferring ahead into the sunshine”.
