Why is Joe Biden’s response to indigenous issues so different than in Australia?

Joe Biden (remember him?) visited Arizona last week to make his first official apology to a Native American president for forcing so many thousands of their children to attend boarding schools in earlier decades.

The timing and location on a Native American tribal reservation was a perfect fit for the Democratic campaign, given that Arizona is a swing state. In 2020, Biden won it by less than 1 percentage point, and Native Americans, who strongly lean Democratic, constitute over 5%. state population.

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