Biden Apologizes for Indigenous Boarding Schools

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Native Americans laud U.S. President Joe Biden for historic apology over boarding schools

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For 150 years , U.S. removed Indigenous children from their homes and sent them away to boarding schools.

They were stripped of their cultures, histories and religions and beaten for speaking their languages.

For many Native Americans , the apology was a welcome acknowledgment of the government's long-standing culpability.

Now, they say, words must be followed by action.

As Biden spoke, hundreds of tribal members rose to their feet, with many recording the moment on their phones.

There was a moment of silence, the formal apology and then an eruption of applause.

At the end of Biden ’s remarks, the crowd stood again, chanting “Thank you, Joe ” Hall, the boarding school survivor in Seattle , sees a long road yet ahead.

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