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(CP)-Canadian Indigenous leaders say U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s apology for his country\u2019s residential school system is only the first step toward healing generations of harm. On Friday, Biden apologized for the U.S. boarding school system that for more than 150 years separated Indigenous children from their parents, calling it \u201cone of the most consequential things\u201d he\u2019s done as president. The apology comes 16 years after former prime minister Stephen Harper apologized for Canada\u2019s residential school system. It follows an investigation of boarding schools driven by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the country\u2019s first Indigenous cabinet secretary, which was prompted by the discovery of 215 suspected unmarked graves at a residential school site in Kamloops, B.C. \u201cThe federal Indian boarding school policy and the pain it has caused will… <\/p>\n

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(CP)-Canadian Indigenous leaders say U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s apology for his country\u2019s residential school system is only the first step toward healing generations of harm. On Friday, Biden apologized for the U.S. boarding school system that for more than 150 years separated Indigenous children from their parents, calling it \u201cone of the most consequential things\u201d he\u2019s done as president. The apology comes 16 years after former prime minister Stephen Harper apologized for Canada\u2019s residential school system. It follows an investigation of boarding schools driven by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the country\u2019s first Indigenous cabinet secretary, which was prompted by the discovery of 215 suspected unmarked graves at a residential school site in Kamloops, B.C. \u201cThe federal Indian boarding school policy and the pain it has caused will... <\/p>\n

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