An apology from the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Remarks of Kevin Gover in May, 2000 acknowledging the responsibility of the BIA for ethnic cleansing with regard to western tribes.
As the nation looked to the West
for more land, this agency participated in the ethnic cleansing
that befell the western tribes.
et in these more
enlightened times, it must be acknowledged that the deliberate
spread of disease, the decimation of the mighty bison herds, the
use of the poison alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the
cowardly killing of women and children made for tragedy on a
scale so ghastly that it cannot be dismissed as merely the
inevitable consequence of the clash of competing ways of life