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Biden Will Apologize for US Role in Native Boarding Schools

Biden Will Apologize for US Role in Native Boarding Schools
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This apology is a long time coming. Under the guise of "civilizing" the native peoples, the US government removed children from their families and forced 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.

Using White or American guilt as a form of penance for some of the tragedy that came with conquest of US lands does no one any good. In both Canada and the US, laws have been written specifically for the economic benefit of Natives. Instead of making modern Americans apologize for the past, society should study and respect this complicated history.


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