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Calendar No. 432
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-187
TRUTH AND HEALING COMMISSION ON INDIAN
BOARDING SCHOOL POLICIES ACT OF 2023
JULY 8, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1723]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 1723) to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian
Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and recommends that
the bill, as amended, do pass.
PURPOSE
To establish a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Board-
ing School Policies (Commission) in the United States, and other
advisory committees and subcommittees; formally investigate, doc-
ument, and report on the histories of Indian Boarding Schools and
their systematic and long-term effects on Native American peoples;
develop recommendations for federal action based on the findings
of the Commission; and promote healing for survivors, descendants,
and communities affected by Indian Boarding Schools.
BACKGROUND
Before European contact, Native peoples maintained unique edu-
cational systems rooted in community and designed to meet the
needs of their environments and cultures.1 The arrival of Euro-
'K. Tsianina Lomawaima & Teresa McCarty, To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy
from a Century ofNative American Education (2006).
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