Arizona: US President Joe Biden has apologized to Native Americans for the federal government-funded Indian boarding schools that abused Indigenous

President Joe Biden marked his visit Friday to Arizona's Tribal communities with a historic apology. The commander-in-chief expressed remorse for the U.S. government's boarding school policies that harmed Native American communities.

PHOENIX: US President Joe Biden delivered a historic apology Friday (Oct 25) for one of the country's "most horrific chapters": abducting Native American children from their families and placing them in government boarding schools to erase their culture. From the early 1800s until the 1970s, the United Sta

At least 18,000 children were taken from their families and forced to attend more than 400 boarding schools across 37 states or then-territories between 1819 and 1969.

At least 973 Native American children died in US government's abusive boarding school system over 150 years; at least 18,000 children were taken from their parents, forced to attend schools that sought to assimilate them

President Biden apologized on Friday for the abuses children experienced at the government-run schools, which were designed to erase tribal ties and cultural practices.