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Canadian Indigenous Leaders Call Biden's Apology for Residential Schools 'First Step'

  • U.S. President Biden's apology for the boarding school system is seen as a first step toward addressing harm done to Indigenous communities.
  • Indigenous leaders urge further actions, including reparations and establishing a truth and healing commission.
  • The U.S. boarding school system inflicted lasting trauma, echoing Canada’s residential schools' abuses of Indigenous children.