President Biden is visiting the Gila Crossing Community School in Arizona today, where he will issue a formal apology for government-run Native American boarding schools, which separated Indigenous families and sought to eliminate Native cultures. The U.S. government operated hundreds of these schools from 1819 to 1969, where children reported severe physical and psychological abuse. An Interior Department investigation this year found nearly 1,000 children died while at the schools. Biden will be accompanied by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary. Haaland is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna.