For Native Americans, the long-awaited apology was a welcome acknowledgment of the government’s longstanding culpability. Now, they say, words must be followed up by action.

For more than 150 years, federal boarding schools for Native children forced them to assimilate, and often caused physical and emotional abuse.

President Joe Biden apologized to Native Americans on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in taking Native children from their families and cultures.

Among the 500-plus boarding schools in the U.S. was Stewart Indian Boarding School near Carson City, which operated from 1890 to 1980.

Democrats hope Biden’s visit to the Gila River Indian Community’s reservation in Arizona will also provide a boost to Harris’ turnout effort in a key battleground state.

Joe Biden’s remarks would mark the first time a U.S. president formally apologized for the government’s role in separating Native children from their families.

President Biden’s trip to the battleground state of Arizona will be the first time an American president has apologized for the abuses that happened at the schools over a period of 150 years.

During his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation as president on Friday, Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system.

Chemawa Indian Training School in Salem is the oldest continuously operated and federally run Indian boarding school in the U.S.

President Joe Biden is the first president to formally apologizes for the U.S. government’s role in running hundreds of Indian boarding schools for a 150-year period that stripped Native American children of their language and culture in a systematic effort to force them to assimilate into White society,