Joe Biden formally apologises for Indian boarding schools

Joe Biden formally apologises for the US government’s role in running over 500 Indian boarding schools. From 1819 to 1969, in what Biden called ‘one of the most horrific chapters in American history’, the US government directly managed or funded Indian boarding schools in nearly 40 states. The schools attempted to forcibly strip indigenous children of their culture. A US Department of the Interior report released earlier this year found that at least nearly 1,000 Indigenous children died in the schools

Biden formally apologises for Indian boarding schools: ‘a blot on US history’