President Joe Biden traveled to the Gila River Indian Community on Friday to formally apologize for the role the U.S. government had in abuses committed at Indian boarding schools that Native American children were forced to attend in the 1800s and 1900s.

For the first time in history, a sitting U.S. president is set to apologize to Indigenous communities for the role the federal government played in the atrocities Indigenous children faced in the federal Native American Boarding School system.

President Biden in Arizona issued a formal presidential apology​ for the atrocities committed during a 150-year era of forced federal Indian boarding schools.

President Joe Biden apologized to Native Americans on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in taking Native children from their families and cultures.

More than 18,000 children were sent to boarding schools hundreds or thousands of miles from home. Many entered a life of trauma or abuse.

The federal government established Indian boarding schools from 1819 until the 1970s that forcibly removed children from their homes and families. Ten days before the general election, Biden's apology at an event in Arizona also gave him a chance to show support for tribal nations in a swing state that the Democratic White House ticket won just by 10,

President Joe Biden apologized for the federal government’s role in running a system of Indian boarding schools that separated Native American children from their families and wreaked havoc on tribal communities.

President Biden on Friday delivered a formal apology from the government for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative that lasted until 1969.