To read more of Stephen Newcomb's editorial on Domination Chronicles, please click here, On Biden’s Recent Apology for the Cruelty of the U.S. Indian Boarding “Schools”.
On October 25, 2024, President Joe Biden visited the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. He traveled there to deliver an official apology to Native nations and peoples. He apologized for the U.S. government creating a policy which separated tens of thousands of Native children from their parents and loved ones in more than five hundred of those institutions. The children were often horribly and sadistically abused and sometimes even killed. Native children died from diseases in overcrowded conditions.
The U.S. government did all that as a means of destroying our Native languages (through linguicide, the intentional killing of a language), in an effort to destroy our cultures, and our spiritual and ceremonial traditions. It was the U.S. government’s effort to erase everything that held our nations and peoples together cohesively, while establishing U.S. domination on top of millions of acres of our traditional homelands and territories, “real estate” and “resources” worth trillions of dollars to the U.S. economy.
One word that is not found in President Biden’s apology is domination. When we look at a recent report in Indian Country Today (ICT) about the Biden apology, we see how fitting it would have been for both Biden and the ICT reporters to have used the word domination.
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