President Joe Biden recently announced the establishment of a new national monument acknowledging the history of the residential school system, which oppressed thousands of Indigenous children and their families during the course of more than 150 years.

President Joe Biden says the monument, to be created at a former boarding school in Pennsylvania, builds on his apology to tribes.

For nearly 50 years during the 19th century, the Carlisle Indian Boarding School served as a flagship model to the federal government's harsh policy on assimilating Native Indian children. On Monday,

Biden will designate a national monument to memorialize the federal government's oppression of thousands of Native American children in a boarding school system during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The monument, at the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, will ensure nobody forgets one of the “most horrific chapters in American history”, Biden said

Pennsylvania's new Carlisle Indian Boarding School National Monument is the seventh new monument designated by the Biden Administration

President Joe Biden plans to create a national monument at a former Indian boarding school site in Pennsylvania to commemorate the resilience of Native American tribes whose children were forced to at

"We're not about erasing history. We're about recognizing history—the good, the bad and the ugly," the president said.

President Joe Biden was slated to speak Monday at his fourth and final Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, according to the White House.

President Joe Biden has designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school site in Pennsylvania to commemorate the resilience of tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and similar abusive institutions.