Native News Online’s Publisher Levi Rickert was a guest on NPR’s “Here and Now” Friday to discuss President Joe Biden’s apology historic apology for federal Indian boarding schools that forcibly stripped Native children of their languages and culture over 150 years in a systematic campaign of assimilation.    

When asked if he thought the apology coming with less than two weeks before the 2024 presidential election if he thought the apology was political, Rickert said: “I don’t care. It’s happening.”  

Here the interview:

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Since the discovery of an unmarked grave with 245 Native students at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia made international headline in May 2021, Native News Online has published over 250 articles relating to the dark chapter in American history.

Related: The President of the United States Issues Historic Apology for U.S. Indian Boarding School Atrocities

Related: President Biden to Make Historic Apology for Federal Indian Boarding School System

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