In Arizona, President Biden issued a formal apology for government-run Native American boarding schools, which separated Indigenous families and sought to exterminate Native cultures. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary, addressed the event at the Gila Crossing Community School.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland: “Tens of thousands of Indigenous children as young as 4 years old were taken from their families and communities and forced into boarding schools run by the U.S. government and religious institutions. These federal Indian boarding schools have impacted every Indigenous person I know. Some are survivors. Some are descendants. But we all carry the trauma that these policies and these places inflicted.”

Biden’s speech was briefly interrupted by an Indigenous protester who shouted, “How can you apologize for a genocide while committing a genocide in Palestine?” We’ll have more on this story later in the broadcast with Nick Tilsen, founder of the Indigenous organizing group NDN Collective.