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My Turn: Long overdue U.S. apology for Indian boarding schools a first step

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On Friday, Oct. 25, at Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, President Joseph Biden delivered a formal apology on behalf of the United States to an assembly of Native American leaders for the genocidal impact of 150 years of U.S. Indian boarding...

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Patt Morrison: Why the U.S. needed to apologize for its 'Indian school' policy

Nearly half a dozen such schools operated in California, taking Native American children from their families and purging them of everything that made them Indian. The program officially ended in 1969. Read More The post Patt Morrison: Why the U.S. needed to apologize for its ‘Indian school’ policy appeared first on Drudge Report.

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Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2

Chief Red Cloud was a Lakota leader in the late 1800s, when the conflict between the US government and Native Americans was intense, and he was the tribal chief when the Catholic church built a boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Generations of children were traumatized by their experience at the school, whose mission was to strip them of their language and culture.Red Cloud’s descendant Dusty Lee Nelson and other memb…

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