Historic First! Biden to Officially Apologize!
According to CCTV News, US President Biden stated on a certain date that he will visit the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on a specific date to deliver a "formal apology" for the US government's actions of forcibly sending Indigenous children to boarding schools and imposing assimilation on them. It is reported that this will be the first time in many years that a US president has issued a formal apology on this issue.
However, for this belated apology, netizens on American social media are not buying it. Many netizens pointed out that the US President's apology is not only too late but also insincere in motive. Moreover, the US government is currently "funding Israel's ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip," making the apology seem particularly perfunctory and ridiculous...
A series of laws and policies were enacted and implemented in American history, establishing Native American boarding schools nationwide, forcing Native American children to leave their families and tribes with the aim of cultural assimilation. In recent years, investigations revealing abuse and harm inflicted on students at these boarding schools have frequently made headlines, and the discovery of numerous children's graves at the school sites has repeatedly shocked the international community.
According to the investigation, these residential schools enforced "forced assimilation" on Indigenous children, "arbitrarily subjected them to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse," implemented "systematic militarization and pedagogical methods aimed at altering identity," and coerced children to adopt English names, cut their hair short, wear military or other uniforms, and prohibited them from using their tribal languages or participating in tribal religious activities. The schools also "routinely employed punitive measures, including corporal punishment," to compel Indigenous children to "behave," such as solitary confinement, whipping, fasting, and slapping.