Our own country allowed children to die in federally funded schools as we have heard today.
After decades of inaction, we are proud of the U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's efforts to jumpstart the Federal Indi...
I believe this is very important so that families have the opportunity to get closure in the cases of children who never returned home.
It will be important to have funding to develop curriculum to be included in all levels of education.
Thank you, Mr. War Bonnet, for that moving testimony and sharing with us the songs that have helped you in your process.
I believe your subcommittee should be granted Subpoena Powers to seek truth and information from those churches.
We owe it to our tribal brothers and sisters to do everything that we can to face a wrong, to right or wrong.
Today, we have listened with tears in our eyes and purpose in our heart to the tragic stories of the treatment of young Native American chil...
H.R. 5444 will establish a much-needed Commission to formally investigate and document the stories of survivors and the human rights violati...
this bill is about bringing out those stories, finding the information, getting the information you need
It is absolutely necessary. It is why we worked with this bill to make sure that this information comes to the boarding school survivors and...
Congress can help to address the trauma that boarding schools inflicted on individuals by providing families and researchers access to recor...
How should we get churches to acknowledge their role in forming and implementing boarding schools for American Indian and Alaska Native chil...
I want to thank you for sharing your story with us today and your willingness to be here.
Questions Submitted by Representative Leger Fernandez
It is undeniable that these events have led to intergenerational trauma.
I am certain there will be other organizations, perhaps some that are culpable for terrible things against other tribal nations, and it will...
would like to be able to work with you to develop some guidelines for what might be an appropriate cost share in this case.
