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117TH CONGRESS J REPT. 117-595
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
TRUTH AND HEALING COMMISSION ON INDIAN
BOARDING SCHOOL POLICIES ACT
DECEMBER 7, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 5444]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5444) to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on
Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do
pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding
School Policies Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that-
(1) assimilation processes, such as the Indian Boarding School Policies, were
adopted by the United States Government to strip American Indian, Alaska Na-
tive, and Native Hawaiian children of their Indigenous identities, beliefs, and
languages to assimilate them into non-Native culture through federally funded
and controlled Christian-run schools, which had the intent and, in many cases,
the effect, of termination, with dire and intentional consequences on the cul-
tures and languages of Indigenous peoples;
(2) assimilation processes can be traced back to-
(A) the enactment of the Act of March 3, 1819 (3 Stat. 516, chapter 85)
(commonly known as the Indian Civilization Fund Act of 1819), which cre-
ated a fund to administer the education, healthcare, and rations promised
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