My Family Lived The Horrors Of Native American Boarding Schools – Why Biden’s Apology Doesn’t Go Far Enough
My Family Lived The Horrors Of Native American Boarding Schools – Why Biden’s Apology Doesn’t Go Far Enough
First- and second-grade students sit in a classroom at the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in Genoa, Neb. Researchers are now trying to locate the bodies of more than 80 Native American children buried near the school. National Archives/AP BY ROSALYN R. LAPIER PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN I am a direct descendant of family members that were forced as children to attend either a U.S. government-operated or church-run Indian boarding school. They include my mother, all four of my grandparents and the majority of my great-grandparents. On Oct. 25, 2024, Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to formally apologize for the policy of sending Native American children to Indian boarding schools, called it one of the most “ horrific chapters” in U.S. history and “a mark of shame.” But he did not call it a genocide. Yet, over the past 10 years, many historians and Indigenous scholars have said that what happened at the Indian boarding schools “ meets the
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