The first person I met at a Monday night meet-and-greet for Dan Osborn, the independent Nebraska Senate candidate, was a Donald Trump-voting Republican named Joe Hallett. He’d worked, alongside his wife, Sherri, with Osborn at Omaha’s Kellogg plant. Explaining Osborn’s appeal, Joe said, “He’s not a millionaire or anything like …
Read More »Biden Apologizes for U.S. Abuse of Indian Children, Calling It ‘a Sin on Our Soul’
President Biden ventured into Native American territory on Friday to offer a formal apology on behalf of the U.S. government for the mistreatment of generations of children who were taken away from their families in an effort to strip them of their culture, history and language. During a visit to …
Read More »Biden to Apologize for Indian Boarding Schools Where Hundreds of Children Died
President Biden on Friday will formally apologize for the role of the federal government in running boarding schools where thousands of Native American children faced abuse, neglect and the erasure of their tribal identities. “I’m heading to do something that should have been done a long time ago, to make …
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