WASHINGTON, Oct 26 — President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned, historic apology yesterday for one of the United States' 'most horrific chapters': ripping Native American...
‘What’s the issue?’: Perak MB says Chinese tourists waving their national flag not an offence, cops to determine if they were Malaysians or otherwiseWASHINGTON, Oct 26 — President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned, historic apology yesterday for one of the United States'"most horrific chapters": ripping Native American children from their families and putting them in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture.
"I formally apologize, as president of the United States, for what we did," he said in a speech that alternated between fiery and deeply emotional, addressing the Gila River Indian Community in Laveen Village, Arizona. Biden was briefly interrupted by a protester denouncing civilian casualties in the Gaza conflict, where the United States serves as Israel's primary arms supplier -- but he told the crowd to let her speak.Biden was joined by US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary, who struck a defiant tone as she recalled her own maternal grandparents"were stolen from their communities and forced to live in a Catholic school.
The apology follows formal declarations in Canada, where thousands of children died at similar boarding schools, and other countries around the world where historic abuses of Indigenous populations are increasingly being recognized.In all, there were more than 400 schools, often church-run, across 37 states or then-territories.
At the boarding school, boys were forced to cut their long braids, forbidden to speak their language, told their religion was"evil," and pressured to convert to Catholicism.In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to compensate over 100,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II.
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