Governor NY Visit Senec Nation to apologize for the role of the state in boarding star-news.press/wp

New York – New York’s Governor plans to visit the Nation of Senec on Tuesday to formally apologize to the role of the state in the leading of boarding the US students from their families with the aim of assimilating them to American society.

It is also expected that they will be expected to meet with the Thomas Indian School survivors, who operated in 1875. until 1957. In Western New York near Lake Erie.

President Senseka J. Conrad Senec, whose father, attended the school, said the apology was overdue. He said his family and countless other silently oiling their pain generations.

“The crimes our children suffered in the Indian School Thomas, remained so long ago hidden in the shadows,” he said in a statement announcing a visit. “Our many years old, our people will directly hear from governors, words we have been waiting for the lives for the state of New York to say – ‘I’m sorry’.

But some tribe members are skeptical for the gesture of good will.

Lori Quigley, professor of the University of Niagara whose mother attended Thomas School 10 years as a young child, she said she hoped the governor would offer more than words.

“An apology is one thing,” she told the phone in front of the visit. “What actions will take this recognition? These traumas still affect our communities.”

Originally established premium missionaries in 1855. years before the state took property 1875. The Thomas Indian School was among More than 400 schools that support governments established throughout the country with the aim of assimilating the Young Young Motherhood.

But schools, which worked approximately 150 years, had a devastating impact on the original American community. The staff in schools worked on the removal of their tradition and heritage. Teachers and administrators cut their hair, prohibit them to speak their own languages ​​and force them into handmade.

Students are supported, forcibly separated from their families, torture, sexual abuse and hatred from school officials. More than 900 children died In schools, the last one of which was closed or crossed into different institutions before December.

Former President Joe Biden in October 2024. He visited the Indian Community of Gila River in Arizona to formally apologize to the Indian for the “sin” of the state system for the performance of the nation states.

But at least 1.6 million dollars in federal funds intended for research projects on entrance schools Among the victims The effort of President Donald Trump to undertake in the federal bureaucracies.

The tribes officials say that Hochul’s visit was the first to sit the New York Governor with the federally recognized files of the tribe.

“They are not words or actions will not be able to undo the pain and suffering of people and other indigenous peoples across the state, but by visiting the Seneca to the Indian School Thomas, we will mark a new day in their relationships,” Hochul said in Friday.

Matthew Hill, a member of the tribe whose father was among the last class of students before school closed, rejected the visit as “empty words”.

After all, he said that the bonnes of Hochul and the tribe negotiate for years How many are there Revenues for the Casino tribe, the state should be collected.

“They apologize for the school, but they will continue to extort money from us in the form of the income from playing,” said the hill. “It’s a joke.”