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My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools – why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools – why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enoughA photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque shows a group of Indigenous students who attended the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe.AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan

I am a direct descendant of family members that were forced as children to attend either a U.S. government-operated or...

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