President Joe Biden on Thursday confirmed reports that he will deliver a formal apology to Native American families that were separated in the past, because of a government-run boarding school system.
The federal government attempted to integrate Native American children through Indian boarding schools from 1819 through the 1970s “by forcibly removing them from their families, communities, languages, religions and cultural beliefs,” according to the Department of the Interior. Some of the students at these schools were abused and even died.