It’s a sin on our soul,” said President Joe Biden, his voice full of anger and emotion. “Quite frankly, there’s no excuse that this apology took 50 years to make.”

We should be ashamed,” the president said of the government’s 150-year legacy of taking Native children from their families and forcing them into abusive boarding schools.

Tribal leaders and boarding school survivors from Washington, several of whom were present as Biden delivered his remarks, said the formal apology is long overdue.

PHOENIX — President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday 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.

President Joe Biden formally apologized on Friday for the U.S. government's role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than 150 years, and was heckled at the event over his support for Israel's war in Gaza.

Native Americans across Indian Country shared mixed emotions this week after President Biden apologized for the U.S. government’s role it played in running Native boarding schools across the country.

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

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.

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,