'Sorry, not Sorry': Trump administration goes silent on boarding school history

Source: Indian Country Today

‘Sorry, not Sorry’: Trump administration goes silent on boarding school history

Biden’s apology for the nation’s boarding school past and his proclamation declaring Carlisle a national monument have been removed from the White House website

Mary Annette Pember 16 hours ago

The advancements made in the United States in recent years to officially face up to its ugly Indian boarding school history are being walked back under President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration announced in April that at least $1.6 million in funding had been slashed for projects meant to capture and digitize the stories of systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in government-run boarding schools.

Now questions are being raised about the removal of details from the White House website of President Joe Biden’s historic apology for Indian boarding schools and his proclamation a few weeks later that the former site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School would become a national monument.

Both announcements have been scrubbed from the website, which responds to links with an “404 error” message. The Carlisle proclamation appears to have been moved to a government web page described as “Biden White House Archives.”

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