Cosponsor the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act

From at least 1860 until 1978, hundreds of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were taken from their families and Tribes and forced to attend government- and religious-run Indian boarding schools. Despite the scope of this coerced assimilation and cultural genocide, there has never been a full accounting of the number of children forced to attend these schools; the number of children who were abused, died, or went missing while at these schools; or the long-term impacts on the children and their families.

The bipartisan Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act (S. 1723/H.R. 7227) would provide a complete picture of what happened, reveal the generations of trauma that forced assimilation caused, and help bring a measure of justice to Tribal citizens and Tribal nations.