Biden designates national monument to ‘apologize for’ Native American boarding school era

Published December 9, 2024 5:14pm ET



President Joe Biden established the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument on Monday to memorialize a “dark chapter” in U.S. history, the era of Native American boarding schools.

Biden, speaking for the last time at the Tribal Nations Summit, remarked on the period spanning the 19th and 20th centuries that saw the federal government systematically separating Native American children from their families.

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