Joe Biden to issue apology over Indian boarding school system

Joe Biden to issue apology over Indian boarding school system
President Joe Biden is to issue an apology (Ben Curtis/AP)

President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologise on Friday for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.

“I would never have guessed in a million years that something like this would happen,” said Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna.

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