No U.S. president has ever made a formal apology for the forced removal of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children or any other aspect of the government’s decimation of Indigenous peoples
U.S. President Joe Biden returns to the White House in Washington after campaign events in New Hampshire on Oct. 22.is expected to formally apologize on Friday for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.
No president has ever formally apologized for the forced removal of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children – an element of genocide as defined by the United Nations – or any other aspect of the U.S. government’s decimation of Indigenous peoples. It’s unclear what, if any, action will follow the apology. The Department of Interior is still working with tribal nations to repatriate the remains of children on federal lands, and many tribes are still at odds with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has refused to follow the federal law regulating the return of Native American remains when it comes to those still buried at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
Friday’s apology could lead to further progress for tribal nations still pushing for continued action from the federal government, because it’s an acknowledgment of past wrongs left unrectified, something “known and buried,” said Melissa Nobles, Chancellor of MIT and author of “The Politics of Official Apologies.”
Pope Francis issued a historic apology in 2022 for the Catholic Church’s co-operation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native people into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations.
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