Briefs for Oct. 30, 2024
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Valley Banks is Coats for Kids drop-off, pick-up location
LAKE COUNTY —Coats for kids are being collected and given out at all area Valley Banks locations from October 2024 to February 2025. New or clean and gently used coats for kids, as well as cash or gift card donations that can be used to purchase coats, can be dropped off between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Valley Banks in Polson, Ronan, St. Ignatius, Arlee, Hot Springs and Thompson Falls. Coats can also be picked up at those same times and locations.
President Biden apologizes for Indian boarding school era
News from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior
GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, ARIZONA — Secretary Haaland joined President Biden at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona this week on the President’s first trip to Indian Country. During their visit, the President issued an historic apology for the federal Indian boarding school era, spurred in part by the groundbreaking work conducted by the Department over the past three years through the Secretary’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. A government acknowledgement and apology for the trauma inflicted by these schools and related policies was the top recommendation of the Department’s investigate report.
President Biden said, “For decades this terrible chapter was hidden from our history books, but now our Administration’s work will ensure that no one will ever forget. After a hundred and fifty years the United States’ government eventually stopped the program. But the Federal Government has never, never, formally apologized for what happened. Until today. I formally apologize as President of the United States of America for what we did. I formally apologize.”
