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Biden apologizes for federal Indian boarding schools

Here & Now Anytime

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4.6911 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

President Biden formally apologized on Friday to tribal communities for the federal Indian boarding schools that operated for 150 years and separated Native American children from their families. Native News Online founder Levi Rickert reacts. Then, are you having a hard time remembering things? Experts say they're seeing more people in their 20s, 30s and 40s experience memory issues. Boston College psychology professor Elizabeth Kensinger joins us. And, novelist Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a surprise sequel to his celebrated "Southern Reach" trilogy. Here & Now's Chris Bentley talks to VanderMeer.

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We heard horrific stories of physical, emotional, sexual abuse

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and recounted by elders who told the stories

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as if they had happened a week or two before.

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An historic apology for the treatment of Native American children. It is Friday, October 25th, from NPR and W-B-R Boston, welcome to hear and now any time. I'm Shirley Jaha.

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On today's episode, have you had a senior moment yet where you forget something? Well it turns out younger and younger

1:16.7

people are having memory problems as well. Stress, chronic stress has a major impact on memory.

1:24.1

The hippocampus, which is the part of the brain important for memory, is actually the one hardest

1:29.6

hit by stress hormones.

1:31.7

And so trying to break that cycle of stress can be really important.

1:36.8

Then the New Yorker calls him the king of weird fiction.

1:40.8

Best-selling author Jeff Vandermeer takes us back to an eerie world and a kind of climate crisis horror.

1:48.0

So really that's kind of what the books are talking about is a new or an old way of looking at the world where we're not as separate

1:55.2

from the places that we live in.

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First now, President Biden is in Phoenix today delivering on a promise to Native American communities.

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