WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following statement on Oct. 25, 2024, by Chair Shelly C. Lowe: * * * This morning President Biden issued a formal apology for the United States' 150-year-long system of federal Indian boarding schools, which forcibly separated Native children from their families with the purpose of severing their ties to their communities and cultural practices. At Gila Crossing Community School in Arizona's Gila River Indian Communit  more