Today's Opinions: For Native peoples, an apology never spoken is no apology at all

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online Your morning dose of Post commentary and guest opinions.       By Ramishah Maruf Op-ed intern  Email Native Americans were forced to leave their homes, march to their deaths, and lose their children to residential schools and early graves. But what followed in the centuries after their near-cultural extinction in the United States was deafening silence, write Sam Brownback, a former U.S. senator and governor of Kansas, and Negiel Bigpond, Apostle of Morning Star Church of All Nations in Oklahoma.  "To many Native people, an apology not expressed is worse than no apology at all, just another set of meaningless words buried in official treaties and broken promises," they write. No U.S. president has yet to apologize to tribal leaders for the damage done to Native American communities, even though Canada, New Zealand and other countries have conducted public ceremonies to begin reconciliation.  "Without this necessary step, the healing process our community desperately needs cannot truly commence, and we cannot repair the resentment that stems from our troubled past." ADVERTISEMENT   (Kevin Mohatt/Reuters) For Native peoples, an apology never spoken is no apology at all A dozen long years ago, we led the congressional effort to issue an official apology by the U.S. government to Native peoples. Now it's time for the U.S. president to make good on that sentiment and say it publicly. By Negiel Bigpond and Sam Brownback ●  Read more »   Nikole Hannah-Jones just dunked on UNC. But for Black journalists and educators, the game is still rigged. A storm of White backlash to Black progress is building in America. 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