October 25, 2024
LAVEEN, ARIZONA – The Coalition of Large Tribes, an intertribal organization representing the interests of the more than 50 tribes with reservations of 100,000 acres or more, encompassing more than 95% of the Indian Country lands and more than half the Native American population, welcomes President Biden’s sincere apology today, recognizing the wrong and painful history of federal Indian boarding schools. For a century, hundreds of such schools took Indian children away from their families and robbed tribal communities of generations—all under the United States’ assimilationist policies that aimed to strip tribes of our land, language and culture. President Biden disavowed those policies and shared that the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to supporting Indian Country’s path to healing from those grave injustices.
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