Hochul vowed her budget will propose the creation of new education materials about local indigenous communities and their contributions.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state’s operation of a boarding school that “sanctioned ethnic cleansing” of Native American children.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first formal apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the site of the Thomas Indian School,