{"id":42812,"date":"2024-11-01T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=42812"},"modified":"2024-11-01T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:28:43","slug":"arizona-mirror-president-biden-apologizes-for-indian-boarding-school-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/11\/01\/arizona-mirror-president-biden-apologizes-for-indian-boarding-school-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Mirror: President Biden apologizes for Indian boarding school era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECjyq9DOnF4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Indianz.Com Video: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/25\/video-president-joe-biden-gila-river-indian-community\/>President Joe Biden at Gila River Indian Community<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">\u2018Too shameful to acknowledge\u2019: Biden delivers historic apology for Indian boarding schools<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Friday, November 1, 2024<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Shondiin Silversmith, <a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\">Arizona Mirror<\/a><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n <p>Standing solemnly in front of a crowd full of Indigenous people on the grassy field of a tribal elementary school near Phoenix, President Joe Biden issued a formal apology to Indigenous communities across the country for the role the United States government had in the Native American Boarding School system, a system that harmed Indigenous people for generations.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cAfter 150 years, the United States government eventually stopped the program, but the federal government has never formally apologized for what happened,\u201d Biden said. \u201cUntil today \u2014 I formally apologize, as president of the United States of America, for what we did.\u201d<\/p><p>Biden\u2019s apology was met with loud cheers from the crowd. He is the first sitting president in the last 10 years to visit a Tribal Nation.<\/p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\/subscribe\">        <div class=\"subscribeShortcodeContainer\">            <div class=\"subscribeTextContainer\">                <i><\/i>                <p>GET THE MORNING HEADLINES.<\/p>            <\/div>            <div class=\"subscribeButtonContainer\">                SUBSCRIBE            <\/div>        <\/div>        <\/a>        <p>He told the community that it was long overdue and that it was only fitting that it was given at a tribal school within an Indigenous community deeply connected to culture and tradition.<\/p><p>\u201cI have a solemn responsibility to be the first president to formally apologize to the Native peoples, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Alaskans and federal Indian boarding schools,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s long, long, long overdue. Quite frankly, there\u2019s no excuse that this apology took (150) years to make.\u00a0<\/p><p>Biden said the pain that the federal Indian boarding school policy has caused will always be a significant mark of shame for the United States.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cFor those who went through this period, it was too painful to speak of,\u201d he said. \u201cFor a nation, it was too shameful to acknowledge.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThis formal apology is the culmination of decades of work by so many courageous people,\u201d Biden said, acknowledging many who were sitting in the audience, including the boarding school survivors and descendants.<\/p><p>\u201cI know no apology can or will make up for what was lost during the darkness of the federal boarding school policy,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBut, today, we\u2019re finally moving forward into the light.\u201d<\/p><p>Biden\u2019s apology, delivered Friday at the Gila River Crossing School on the Gila River Indian Community, comes three years after Interior Secretary Deb Haaland launched the first ever federal investigation into Native American Boarding Schools.<\/p><p>Haaland spoke before Biden, and was welcomed to the stage by Miss Gila River Susanna Osife as \u201cAuntie Deb.\u201d Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, told the crowd that thinking about our ancestors today is important because they persevered, and their stories are everywhere.<\/p><p>\u201cWe tell those stories because Native American history is American history,\u201d Haaland said.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNW7mzhFQRQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Indianz.Com Video: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/25\/video-secretary-deb-haaland-at-gila-river-indian-community\/>Secretary Deb Haaland at Gila River Indian Community<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>The Department of Interior released the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bia.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/media_document\/doi_federal_indian_boarding_school_initiative_investigative_report_vii_final_508_compliant.pdf\"> final boarding school report<\/a> in July. It provided eight recommendations from the Department of Indian Affairs for the federal government that would support a path to healing for tribal communities.\u00a0<\/p><p>At the top of that list was a call for the United States to acknowledge and apologize for its role in the federal Indian boarding school policies that have harmed \u2014 and continue to harm \u2014 Indigenous peoples across the country.<\/p><p>\u201cToday is a day for remembering, but it\u2019s also a day to celebrate our perseverance,\u201d Haaland said. \u201cIn spite of everything that has happened, we are still here.\u201d<\/p><p>While boarding schools are places where affluent families send their children for an exclusive education for most of the United States, Haaland noted how different the prospect was for Native Americans.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cFor Indigenous peoples, they served as places of trauma and terror for more than 100 years,\u201d she said. \u201cTens of thousands of Indigenous children as young as four years old were taken from their families and communities and forced into boarding schools run by U.S. government institutions.\u201d<\/p><p>Haaland said that the federal Native American Boarding School system has impacted every Indigenous person she knows, and they all carry the trauma that those policies and schools inflicted.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cThis is the first time in history that a United States cabinet secretary has shared the traumas of our past, and I acknowledge that this trauma was perpetrated by the agency that I now lead,\u201d Haaland said. \u201cFor decades, this terrible chapter was hidden from our history books, but now our administration\u2019s work will ensure that no one will ever forget.\u201d<\/p><p>Haaland launched the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative in 2021 to shed light on the \u201chorrific era of our nation\u2019s history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>The initiative compiled two reports and visited dozens of Indigenous communities, hearing from survivors and descendants so that their experiences are all documented because the goal of Native American Boarding Schools was to assimilate and eradicate Indigenous people.\u00a0<\/p><p>Haaland said the investigation into these boarding schools are shared in those reports and it shows the \u201cloud and unequivocal truth\u201d that the federal government took deliberate and strategic actions through boarding school policies to isolate Indigenous children from their families and steal from them the languages, cultures, and traditions that are fundamental to Indigenous people.<\/p><p>\u201cAs we stand here together, my friends and relatives, we know that the federal government failed,\u201d She said. \u201cIt failed to annihilate our languages, our traditions, our life ways. It failed to destroy us because we persevered.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_indianz-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/z\/fibs\/2024\/10\/29\/photos-president-joe-biden-gila-river-indian-community-doi\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24\/54093741914_e5f806e7bb_o-scaled-2.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTOS: President Joe Biden at Gila River Indian Community (DOI)\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/z\/fibs\/2024\/10\/29\/photos-president-joe-biden-gila-river-indian-community-doi\/\">\n\t\t\tPHOTOS: President Joe Biden at Gila River Indian Community (DOI)\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/z\/fibs\/2024\/10\/29\/photos-president-joe-biden-gila-river-indian-community-doi\/\">\n\t\t\t<p>U.S. Department of the Interior photos from President Joe Biden&#8217;s historic visit to the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on October 25, 2024.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Archive\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tFederal Indian Boarding School Initiative Archive\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<p>The Federal Boarding School Initiative\u2019s report called on Congress and federal agencies to take action, and Haaland said that some of those recommendations are already being put into effect.\u00a0<\/p><p>For instance, Haaland said the department is working alongside the departments of Education and Health and Human Services to invest in the preservation of Native languages.<\/p><p>\u201cWe are developing a 10-year national plan guided by tribal leaders and Native language teachers,\u201d Haaland said, and more details about their efforts will be released later.<\/p><p>\u201cThe painful loss of our Indigenous languages has been a consistent topic as we have met with survivors across our nation,\u201d she said.<\/p><p>Another effort Haaland highlighted is the department\u2019s collaboration with the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition to create an oral collection of first-person narratives from boarding school survivors.\u00a0<\/p><p>Haaland said this collaboration is a way to ensure that future generations are told the stories of the boarding school era and understand the impacts and intergenerational trauma caused by boarding school policies.<\/p><p>As the crowd listened to Biden give his speech, protesters with O\u2019odham Solidarity made their voice heard as one walked toward the stage holding a sign calling for justice for Palestinians.<\/p><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\/2024\/10\/25\/too-shameful-to-acknowledge-biden-delivers-historic-apology-for-indian-boarding-schools\/president-biden-speaks-at-gila-river-indian-community-in-arizona-2\/\"><\/a><i><\/i>  Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s remarks at Gila Crossing Community School on Oct. 25, 2024, on the Gila River Indian Community. Biden formally apologized for the trauma inflicted by the federal government\u2019s forced Native American boarding school policy. Photo by Rebecca Noble | Getty Images<\/p><\/figure><p>As Biden delivered his remarks, one protester yelled from the crowd: \u201cNo, what about the people in Gaza.\u201d<\/p><p>The protest was met with shouts from the crowd as a man in the crowd yelled: \u201cGet out of here.\u201d But Biden said let her talk.<\/p><p>\u201cLet her go,\u201d Biden said as the protester was being removed. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of innocent people being killed and it has to stop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Even after the protestors voiced their concerns, the community\u2019s attention went back to Biden as he continued his speech about the boarding school years as well as his investments to Indian Country.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_indianz-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/25\/navajo-nation-council\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24\/crystalynecurleyeugeniacharlesnewton-1.jpe\" alt=\"Navajo Nation Council: \u2018This apology is a first step\u2019\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/25\/navajo-nation-council\/\">\n\t\t\tNavajo Nation Council: \u2018This apology is a first step\u2019\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/10\/25\/navajo-nation-council\/\">\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s apology is a critical acknowledgment of past injustices and wrongdoings by the federal government, and it lays the groundwork for continued healing,\u201d said Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Indianz.Com\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tIndianz.Com\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">\u2018It was long overdue\u2019<\/div><p>Crystalyne Curley said she thought of her grandfathers as Biden delivered his apology, which brought back memories of the stories they would tell of their time at boarding schools and the trauma they experienced.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bittersweet moment,\u201d Curley said. \u201cI think there is a lot of a mix of emotions, because each of our Navajo citizens has a tie to the trauma that has happened within our boarding schools.\u201d<\/p><p>Curley serves as speaker of the Navajo Nation Council and has heard stories about the federal boarding school system from her community for generations.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cIt was long overdue,\u201d Curley said. \u201cI really commend our president Biden for taking that step and being the first one to have that courage to say, \u2018Yes, we done wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p><p>Curley said that is something that many Indigenous people have been waiting to hear, including the Navajo people.<\/p><p>\u201cMany of our children didn\u2019t come home,\u201d she said, and the policies\u2019 lingering effects include the loss of language and culture.<\/p><p>The Department of the Interior investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/department-interior-releases-investigative-report-outlines-next-steps-federal-indian\">the federal Indian boarding school system<\/a> across the United States, identifying more than 400 schools and over 70 burial sites.<\/p><p>Arizona was <a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\/2022\/05\/11\/historic-report-on-federal-indian-boarding-schools-finds-47-in-arizona-400-nationwide\/\">home to 47 of those schools<\/a>, which were attended by Indigenous <a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\/2022\/09\/14\/the-night-the-greyhounds-came\/\">children who were taken away from their families<\/a> and attempted to assimilate them through education \u2014 and, often, physical punishment.<\/p><p>The legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\/2023\/09\/30\/new-report-finds-another-115-indigenous-boarding-schools-most-run-by-missionaries\/\">the federal Indian boarding school system<\/a> is not new to Indigenous people. For centuries, Indigenous people across the country have experienced the loss of their culture, traditions, language and land.\u00a0<\/p><p>Multiple federally operated boarding schools were established in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, and many of them are still operational today, though under different policies than when they were constructed.<\/p><p>Curley said that there are still a lot of federally operated Bureau of Indian Education schools in operation on the Navajo Nation, but some families still hesitate to enroll their children in them because of the boarding school history.\u00a0<\/p><p>She hopes that this apology will lead to the federal government investing in the education system within tribal nations.<\/p><p>\u201cStart investing back into our children and our mental, spiritual, (and) psychological health that this has caused for many decades,\u201d she added.<\/p><p>Curley said she hopes that the momentum of Biden\u2019s apology will be carried on into the next administration by acknowledging the wrong done to Indigenous communities.\u00a0<\/p><p>Now that an official apology has been given, Curley said that healing needs to take place and that comes in the form of investing in Indigenous communities, something she said is best done by funding public and mental health resources, as well as reinvesting in the culture and language revitalizations within their communities.<\/p><p>\u201cFor healing to take place, it takes at least two generations,\u201d Curley said.<\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/11\/01\/arizona-mirror-president-biden-apologies-for-indian-boarding-school-era\/gilariverindiancommunity-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" data-attachment-id=\"42819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/11\/01\/arizona-mirror-president-biden-apologizes-for-indian-boarding-school-era\/gilariverindiancommunity-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/01\/gilariverindiancommunity.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1363\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gila River Indian Community\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Gila River Indian Community&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Gila Crossing School on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona hosted President Joe Biden for his historic visit on October 25, 2024. Photo: &lt;a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/z\/fibs\/2024\/10\/29\/photos-president-joe-biden-gila-river-indian-community-doi\/&gt;U.S. Department of the Interior&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/01\/gilariverindiancommunity.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/01\/gilariverindiancommunity.jpg\" alt=\"Gila River Indian Community\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42819\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> The Gila Crossing School on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona hosted President Joe Biden for his historic visit on October 25, 2024. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/z\/fibs\/2024\/10\/29\/photos-president-joe-biden-gila-river-indian-community-doi\/>U.S. Department of the Interior<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>After Biden issued his apology, Native organizations and advocates from across Indian Country called for action.\u00a0<\/p><p>Cheryl Crazy Bull, the president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, said that the federal government and philanthropists need to make a significant investment in restorative and healing approaches as well as institutions to repair the harm done by the boarding school era.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cThe Native people who we support, from our youngest children to our college students, deserve that investment,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p><p>Crystal Echo Hawk, the founder and CEO of IllumiNative, called Biden\u2019s apology a significant step toward justice for Indian Country, but said it must not be the end of the government\u2019s efforts.<\/p><p>\u201cTrue accountability requires comprehensive action \u2014 beginning with full transparency about the extent of these abuses and the return of Native children\u2019s remains to their families and communities,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cWe must continue to demand further accountability of the harms done to Native peoples, especially the Native children who experienced neglect, inhumane conditions, physical and sexual abuse, and death under the guise of education,\u201d Echo Hawk said. \u201cThe federal government must commit to supporting Native-led healing initiatives, language revitalization programs, and cultural preservation efforts to effectively begin repairing the damage of the past.\u201d<\/p><p><em>***UPDATE: This story has been updated with additional comments from Native advocates.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/azmirror.com\/donate\/?oa_referrer=midstorybox\">        <div class=\"donateContainer\">            <div class=\"donateTextContainer\">                <p>YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE.<\/p>            <\/div>            <div class=\"donateButtonContainer\">                SUPPORT            <\/div>        <\/div>        <\/a>        \r\n<style> figure, .tipContainer, .socContainer, .subscribeShortcodeContainer, .donateContainer {display:none !important;} .youtubeContainer { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom:12px; } .youtubeContainer iframe, .video-container object, .video-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100% !important; height: 100%; margin: 12px 0px !important; } .newsroomSidebar {width:35%;max-width:35%;padding:10px;border-top:solid 2px black;background-color:#d3d3d3;float:right;margin-left:50px;} .snrsInfoboxSubContainer {padding:10px;border-top:solid 2px black;background-color:#d3d3d3;} .halfwidth {float:right;width:50%;max-width:50%;} .indent2Container {margin-left: 1em;margin-bottom:1em; border-left: solid 1px black;padding-left: 2em;} @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {.newsroomSidebar {max-width:95%;width:95%;margin-left:4%} .halfwidth {float:none;width:100%;max-width:100%;} }<\/style>\r\n<HR>\r\n<p><strong>\r\nThis story originally appeared on <a href=https:\/\/azmirror.com\/2024\/10\/25\/too-shameful-to-acknowledge-biden-delivers-historic-apology-for-indian-boarding-schools\/>Arizona Mirror on October 25, 2024<\/a>. 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