{"id":42537,"date":"2024-10-25T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=42537"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:57:28","slug":"sen-ben-ray-lujan-d-new-mexico-a-step-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/25\/sen-ben-ray-lujan-d-new-mexico-a-step-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-New Mexico): ‘A step in the right direction’"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Ben<\/a>
Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-New Mexico), then serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, is seen on a Congressional delegation visit to New Mexico on April 14, 2019. Photo by Monica Sanchez, Courtesy House Committee on Natural Resources Democrats<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Luj\u00e1n Statement on Historic Formal Apology by President Biden for Traumatic Federal Indian Boarding School Policies\r\n <\/div>\r\n
Friday, October 25, 2024<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nSanta Fe, New Mexico — U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, issued the following statement regarding President Biden\u2019s historic formal apology for the past injustices of the federal government\u2019s Indian Boarding School Policies: \r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cToday\u2019s long-awaited apology is a step in the right direction to heal from the intergeneration trauma inflicted by the federal government\u2019s Indian Boarding School Policies. Across our Native communities and Tribal Nations, many continue to bear the scars from this dark time in our nation\u2019s history. I applaud President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary Haaland for fully acknowledging the harms of the past and for this effort to begin on the road toward healing tribal families.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cAcknowledging the injustices of the boarding school era is just the first step toward reconciliation. I was honored to introduce the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act \u2013 legislation that seeks healing for stolen Native children and their communities, and I will always continue to fight to get this, and similar legislation passed and signed into law.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cLet us never forget the scars inflicted on our Native brothers and sisters. Today, we are entering a chapter in the reconciliation process, and we must continue to right the wrongs of the boarding school era and ensure it is never repeated.\u201d","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Let us never forget the scars inflicted on our Native brothers and sisters,” said Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-New Mexico).","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,14],"tags":[1457,370,117,418,88,94,118,176,53,54,167,213,91,102],"class_list":["post-42537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-national","category-politics","tag-apologies","tag-ben-ray-lujan","tag-bia","tag-boarding-schools","tag-deb-haaland","tag-democrats","tag-doi","tag-genocide","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-new-mexico","tag-scia","tag-senate","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/02\/benraylujan-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-b45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42622,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537\/revisions\/42622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}