Oversight Hearing on "Volume 1 of the Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report"

 

 

& Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 2907

The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold a hearing Wednesday on Indian boarding schools.

The
hearing will examine the Interior Department’s investigative report on
Indian boarding schools and the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian
Boarding School Policies Act (S. 2907).

Native leaders are scheduled to testify about the report, legislation and what action is needed next.

Advocates
have been calling for the Senate committee to hold a hearing on the
boarding school legislation and for the House version to be passed.

The Indian affairs committee hearing will be streamed online.