WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden on Dec. 9 designated a new national monument to memorialize the federal government’s oppression of thousands of native American children through the boarding school system founded in the late 19th century.
“An entire generation of native children was literally stolen from their families and tribes and sent away to boarding school,” Biden said during a speech at the White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington. “It was wrong.”
The designation of a monument comes after Biden visited Arizona in October to apologize for the federal Indian boarding school era.
Biden described it as “a dark chapter” in U.S. history that lasted 150 years….