An
apology would be "the highest mark in history for native Americans,"
said Buchanan from the northern state of Michigan. "As you know, (we)
take the spoken word very very seriously. When we're lied to it's
probably one of the worst things on earth. You take what someone says
and you trust, but when you get burnt over and over again an apology
like that does mean a lot." Many of the country's four million
indigenous people -- often referred to as American Indians -- say
Washington never lived up to the promises it made in hundreds of
treaties it made with their ancestors as it colonised the territory
that became the United States. [more]
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