abuse and neglect. Many of the children who were taken to boarding schools never returned to their communities. At the Carlisle Indian School alone, approximately 180 AI/AN children were buried. (6) While attending Indian boarding schools, AI/AN children suffered additional psychological abuses as they were sent to White-owned homes and businesses for involuntary and unpaid manual labor work during the summers. Many children ran away and remained missing, or died of illnesses due to harsh living conditions, abuse, and/or substandard health care provided by the schools. (7) Many of the children were buried in unmarked graves or off-campus cemeteries. Inaccurate, scattered, and missing school records make it nearly impossible for families to locate the final resting place of their loved ones, especially since only 38 percent of the school’s records have been located from 142 of the known 367 boarding schools. (8) Parents of the children who were forcibly removed to the boarding schools were prohibited from visiting or engaging in correspondence with their children. Parental resistance to compliance with this harsh no-contact policy resulted in their incarceration or loss of access to basic provisions including food rations, clothing, or both. (9) The 2018 Broken Promises Report published by the United States Commission on Civil Rights reported that AI/AN communities continue to experience intergenerational trauma resulting from experiences in Indian Boarding Schools that divided cultural family structures, damaged indigenous identities, and inflicted chronic psychological ramifications on AI/AN children and families. (10) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study shows that adverse or traumatic childhood experiences disrupts brain development leading to a higher likelihood of negative health outcomes as adults including, but not limited to, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. AI/ANs suffer from disproportional rates of each of these