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By Philip Marcelo NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York\u2019s governor plans to visit the Seneca Nation on Tuesday to formally apologize for the state\u2019s role in running an upstate boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of assimilating them into American society. Gov. Kathy Hochul is also expected to meet with survivors of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 to 1957 in western New York near Lake Erie. Seneca President J. Conrad Seneca, whose father attended the school, said the apology is overdue. He said his family and countless others have quietly borne their pain for generations. \u201cThe atrocities that our children suffered at the Thomas Indian School have remained hidden in the shadows for far too long,\u201d he said in a… <\/p>\n

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By Philip Marcelo NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York\u2019s governor plans to visit the Seneca Nation on Tuesday to formally apologize for the state\u2019s role in running an upstate boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of assimilating them into American society. Gov. Kathy Hochul is also expected to meet with survivors of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 to 1957 in western New York near Lake Erie. Seneca President J. Conrad Seneca, whose father attended the school, said the apology is overdue. He said his family and countless others have quietly borne their pain for generations. \u201cThe atrocities that our children suffered at the Thomas Indian School have remained hidden in the shadows for far too long,\u201d he said in a... <\/p>\n

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