Watch Live: Biden delivering apology for Indian boarding school atrocities

President Biden is successful Arizona connected Friday to rumor a formal statesmanlike apology to Native American communities for nan atrocities committed against Indigenous group during a 150-year era of forced national Indian boarding schools. The president's remarks are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. EDT.

The president chose to speak astatine nan Gila River Indian Community successful Arizona, though his apology is for each tribal communities that suffered. From 1819 done nan 1970s, nan national authorities and belief institutions established boarding schools passim nan state to assimilate Alaska Native, American Indian and Native Hawaiian children into White American civilization by forcibly removing them from their families, communities and belief systems. Many children who attended these boarding schools endured affectional and beingness abuse, and hundreds of them died.

"I'm heading to do thing that should person been done a agelong clip ago," Mr. Biden told reporters earlier boarding Marine One connected Thursday afternoon. "Make a general apology to nan Indian nations for nan measurement we treated their children for truthful galore years."

President Biden is greeted by members of a Native American organization upon presence astatine Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected Oct. 24, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

The Department of nan Interior, tally by nan first Native American Cabinet secretary, Deb Haaland, conducted nan first-ever national investigation into nan Indian national boarding schoolhouse era. It revealed that much than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children's deaths occurred astatine 19 of nan national Indian boarding schools, and identified 53 marked and unmarked funeral sites astatine schoolhouse sites nationwide. The national authorities often contracted pinch Presbyterian, Catholic and Episcopalian belief institutions to tally nan schools.

The report found that erstwhile children grounded to meet standards aliases collapsed rules, they were subjected to corporal punishment, including "solitary confinement; flogging; withholding food; whipping; slapping; and cuffing." Oftentimes, older children were forced to inflict reward connected their younger classmates.

Speaking pinch reporters aboard Air Force One en way to Arizona connected Thursday, Haaland's sound broke.

"For much than a century, tens of thousands of Indigenous children, arsenic young arsenic 4 years old, were taken from their families and communities and forced into boarding schools tally by nan U.S. authorities and belief institutions," Haaland said. "This includes my ain family. For decades, this unspeakable section was hidden from our history books. But now, our administration's activity will guarantee that nary 1 will ever forget." 

How to watch President Biden's remarks astatine nan Gila River Indian Community

• What: President Biden delivers an apology on behalf of nan state for atrocities astatine national Indian boarding schools.
• Date: Friday, Oct. 25, 2024
• Time: 1:30 p.m. EDT 
• Location: Gila River Indian Community successful Arizona 
• Online stream: Live connected CBS News successful nan subordinate supra and connected your mobile aliases streaming device.

In:
• Arizona
• Joe Biden