Sen. Schatz good afternoon, welcome to the committees oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interiors federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative report and a legislative hearing on s2907. A bill to establish a truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School policies in the United States. The Indian Boarding School era was a dark period in our nations history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. American indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. As the Department Report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools with a primary goal in mind, the forcible assimilation of native children into western ways of life. These schools were key tools for suppressing native cultures and languages, separating native children from their families and their homelands, and indoctrinating them to, as the founder of the Carlyle School ominously said, kill the indian and save the man. And that was not an empty promise. The bru
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