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.

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

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 on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the "sin" of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated Indian children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history.

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.

President Biden will apologize for 150-year US policy that forced Indigenous children into abusive boarding schools

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.