In what many are calling a historic moment, president Joe Biden delivered an apology on Friday to the Gila River Indian Reservation near Phoenix for the forcible removal of Native children from their homes. In an effort to “kill the Indian, save the man,” these children—some as young as 3 years old—were stripped of their language and culture, subjected to torture and sexual abuse, and nearly 1,000 were murdered over a period of 150 years at 523 different schools across the United States. This cultural genocide caused unimaginable generational trauma that resonates today. This is the first time a U.S. president has acknowledged wrongdoing in perpetuating generations of systemic violence through residential schools.