James LaBelle Sr., an Alaska boarding school survivor and board president of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, has spent years advocating for the legislation. He said he is encouraged by the bill’s committee passage and hopes to see it signed into law.
The commission would also develop recommendations for resources and assistance the federal government should provide, and for establishing a nationwide hotline for survivors, family members or other community members affected by the policies. Additionally, it would propose recommendations to prevent the removal of Indigenous children by state social services, foster care agencies and adoption services.
“The scope and gravity of harm inflicted by these policies and schools — which the federal government funded and supported— is oftentimes just difficult to understand,” Murkowski said. “But because the U.S. government implemented these policies, it’s now incumbent on us to document what happened and how some of these institutions attempted to literally destroy Native cultures and to develop recommendations to heal from these harms.
At the committee meeting this week, the panel agreed to Republican-backed amendments on the legislation, including cost-cutting measures and improvements to the commission’s subpoena power.
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