For Native Americans, the long-awaited apology was a welcome acknowledgment of the government’s longstanding culpability. Now, they say, words must be followed up by action.

Among the 500-plus boarding schools in the U.S. was Stewart Indian Boarding School near Carson City, which operated from 1890 to 1980.

During his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation as president on Friday, Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system.

President Biden will apologize for 150-year US policy that forced Indigenous children into abusive boarding schools

Chemawa Indian Training School in Salem is the oldest continuously operated and federally run Indian boarding school in the U.S.

President Joe Biden is the first president to formally apologizes for the U.S. government’s role in running hundreds of Indian boarding schools for a 150-year period that stripped Native American children of their language and culture in a systematic effort to force them to assimilate into White society,

Oregon tribal leaders have long pushed for a formal apology for the government’s role in the schools where widespread mistreatment and abuse occurred.