Bill > HRes1526

This Resolution officially recognizes the week of September 30th as "National Orange Shirt Week" or "National Week of Remembrance" to honor and acknowledge the experiences of Indigenous children, including American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children, who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to federally funded and often church-run Indian boarding schools. These schools, operating from 1819 through the 1960s, aimed to strip Indigenous children of their cultural identities, languages, and beliefs through assimilation policies that often resulted in severe abuse, neglect, and lasting intergenerational trauma, with many children never returning home or surviving their time in these institutions.