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President Biden for the first time his president visited an Indian reservation in Arizona today

Biden issuing a historic apology for the federal Indian boarding school program.

NPR's Jimenez-Bistio has more.

Biden's formal apology addressed a history of forced cultural assimilation.

I formally apologize as President of the United States of America for what we did.

For over 150 years, Biden said that the US underwent a horrific chapter during which

Native American children were forced to undergo abuse and the erasure of their language.

At least 900 children died and the Interior Department

estimates that the number of victims is even higher.

Biden's visit comes less than two weeks before election day.

The formal apology took place on the Heila River crossing community school

grounds. The Heila River Indian community sits in part in Maricopa County, one of

the counties that could determine control of the White House.

He Manabustio and PR News Phoenix.

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