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Your Voice Matters. Please stand with Indian boarding school survivors, their descendants, and Tribal nations by urging your Congressional leaders in Washington, D.C. to pass the Truth and Healing Commission bill. Help us bring truth to light.

I am reaching out to urge you to support S.761/H.R 7325, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act. This legislation seeks to formally investigate, document, and report on the histories of Indian boarding schools, Indian boarding school policies, and the long-term effects of those schools and policies on Native American peoples. Between the 1800s and the 1970s, more than 500 Indian boarding schools operated across the United States, lasting over 150 years. Almost every state in the U.S. had at least one Indian boarding school in operation. These schools sought to assimilate Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children by forcibly removing them from their families, communities, and beliefs.

This bipartisan bill will achieve the following:
- Hold public or private convenings to receive testimony.
- Meaningfully consult and engage with Indian Country and federal partners.
- Investigate historical records, existing research, and impacts on Native American students, cultures, and traditions. 
- Educate about Indian Boarding School Policies.
- Provide for the appropriate management and care of ancestral remains and cemeteries.
- Produce an interim and final report before termination of the Commission.
-Passing this legislation would not open the government to lawsuits, require payment of compensation or reparations, or create new criminal penalties.

Again, I urge you to please join the broad coalition of bipartisan support for this bill.  

Thank you,

Contact your Congressional members now!

Your Voice Matters. Please stand with Indian boarding school survivors, their descendants, and Tribal nations by urging your Congressional leaders in Washington, D.C. to pass the Truth and Healing Commission bill. Help us bring truth to light.

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