WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: ALBUQUERQUE U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) released the following statement after President Joe Biden's historic apology to Indigenous people for the federal government's Indian Boarding School Policies: "Indigenous history is American history. Today, the U.S. government took a necessary and long overdue step in acknowledging an often dark and painful past with our Indigenous nations.  more