Biden to Apologize for History of Native Boarding Schools

While the US government claimed they were "civilizing" the Natives, in reality, they were removing these children from their families and forcing them to practice the religion, culture, and language of their colonizers. They were also physically and emotionally punished for not adopting these foreign lessons, thus instilling generational fear and trauma. Either by force or self-censorship, Native peoples have slowly lost most of their history.