Kevin Gover apologizes for the misdemeanor of the BIA towards American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Explanation:
The speech was delivered by Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs Kevin Grover at the celebration of the 175th anniversary of BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) with an intent to emphasis on the ethnic and cultural indifference or misbehavior towards American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Gover points out how children and their parents who were sent to BIA Boarding School suffered shame and lived in fear when subject to alcohol, drug abuse and domestic violence.
His apology was to emphasize on ethnic cleansing and destroying cultural difference as to what happened in the past cannot be changed, but we can look on to have a good future. His confession of all the wrongdoings by BIA was to lay stress on the healing that all should undergo which can enable to forget the past and focus on the future.
