Biden to apologize to Native Americans for era of boarding school atrocities

President Biden will issue a formal presidential apology to the Native American community in Arizona on Friday for atrocities committed against Indigenous peoples during the era of federal Indian boarding schools, according to a source familiar with the president's announcement. 

From 1819 through the 1970s, the federal government established and supported Indian boarding schools throughout the country to assimilate Alaska Native, American Indian and Native Hawaiian children into White American culture by forcibly removing them from their families, communities and belief systems. Many children who attended these boarding schools endured emotional and physical abuse, and some died, the Department of the Interior detailed. 

The Washington Post first reported the president's anticipated apology.