President Joe Biden tells a crowd from the Gila River Indian Community that he apologizes for the generational trauma caused by federal native boarding schools, calling it a "sin on our souls."
LAVEEN VILLAGE-President Joe Biden, on October 25, 2024, formally apologized for the 150 years of abuse and harm suffered by Indigenous children who were put into the federal boarding school system.
"I believe it is important that we do know there was [sic] generations of Native children stolen, taken away to places they didn't know, with people they never met, who spoke a language they never heard," Biden said during a visit to the Gila River Indian Community in front of an emotional crowd. "The federal government has never formally apologized, until today."
This apology comes after an extens...
