More than 18,000 children were sent to boarding schools hundreds or thousands of miles from home. Many entered a life of trauma or abuse.

"This to me is one of the most consequential things I've ever had an opportunity to do in my whole career," Biden said in his apology at an outdoor football and track field in Laveen Village, Arizona,

President Joe Biden formally apologized on Friday for the federal government’s role in forcing Native American children into boarding schools, where many were abused and more than 900 died. It marked the first time an American president issued an official apology for the government’s treatment of Native American,

President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for what he described as “one of the most horrific chapters in American history,” government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period.

Biden visited Arizona on Friday to apologize for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding schools that ran for over 150 years, and also trumpet the administration's policies to help Native American communities.