Biden creates national monument marking Indian boarding schools' history of oppression

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden designated a national monument Monday that will memorialize the federal government's oppression of thousands of Native American children in a boarding school system during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biden announced the new monument, called the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument and located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the final White House Tribal Nations Summit of his administration Monday afternoon.

“About 7,800 children, more than 140 tribes, were sent to Carlisle, stolen from their families,” Biden said. “It was wrong.”

“Making the Carlisle School a national monument, we make clear what great nations do: We don’t erase history; we acknowledge it, we learn from it, we remember, so we never repeat it again.”

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