President Joe Biden on Monday designated a federal monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, at a former boarding school that mistreated Native American children in an attempt to assimilate them — and served as a model for similar institutions across the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden announced the creation of a new national monument on the site of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School to honor the tens of thousands of students who attended boarding schools as part of the government’s brutal efforts at forced assimilation of Native people.

For nearly 50 years during the 19th century, the Carlisle Indian Boarding School served as a flagship model to the federal government's harsh policy on assimilating Native Indian children. On Monday,