FILE - Elders from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in southeastern Montana listen to speakers during a session for survivors of government-sponsored Native American boarding schools, in Bozeman, Mont., Nov. 5, 2023. The Interior Department says more than 400 abusive, government-backed boarding schools operated across the U.S. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
FILE - Donovan Archambault, from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, speaks about abuses he suffered at government-sponsored Native American boarding schools, during a U.S. Department of Interior event at Montana State University, Nov. 5, 2023, in Bozeman, Mont. Federal officials with the Interior Department called on the U.S. government Tuesday, July 30, 2024, to apologize for a nationwide system of boarding schools in which Native children faced abuse and neglect. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
FILE - The ruins of a building that was part of a Native American boarding school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Mission, S.D., are show here Oct. 15, 2022. Federal officials with the Interior Department called on the U.S. government Tuesday, July 30, 2024, to apologize for a nationwide system of boarding schools in which Native children faced abuse and neglect. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
FILE - Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., on Oct. 15, 2022. Federal officials said Tuesday, July 30, 2024, that an Interior Department investigation found that at least 973 Native American children died in the schools over a 150-year period. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)