US Government: President Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy
Video recording of US President Biden’s speech at Gila Crossing School near Phoenix, recorded and published unabridged by US broadcaster NBC News.
“Full speech: Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy
President Joe Biden delivered an apology for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation.”
- Video recording of US President Biden’s speech on the website of US broadcaster NBC (last checked in October 2024)
- See also the report by The Guardian: “Biden formally apologizes for Indian boarding schools: ‘a blot on US history'”
Editor’s note:
The forcible removal of children from a group is an act that is also mentioned in the UN Genocide Convention.