Apology for human rights abuses has precedent in US

(Southern Methodist University) The growing global movement to apologize and make restitution to victims of human rights abuses is gathering steam in the United States. It won't be the first, however, because the nation has a precedent of government restitution in three examples found in the history of the American West, says Sherry Smith, president of the Western History Association and a history professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.