1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) The Indian Boarding School Policy was adopted by the United States Government to strip American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children of their indigenous identities, beliefs, and traditional languages to assimilate them into White American culture through federally funded Christian-run schools, which had the effect of cultural genocide. (2) For nearly a century, between 1869 and the 1960s, the Federal Government implemented the Indian Boarding School Policy. This policy authorized the forced removal of hundreds of thousands of AI/AN children, as young as 5 years old, relocating them from their homes in Tribal communities to one of the 367 Indian Boarding Schools across 30 States. (3) By 1926, nearly 83 percent of AI/AN school-age children were enrolled in Indian boarding schools in the United States. However, because nearly 62 percent of the school records have been lost or destroyed, the full extent of the Federal Indian boarding school policy has not been identified. (4) Gen. Richard Henry Pratt, the founder and superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, stated the ethos of this policy to kill the Indian in him, and save the man . Founded in 1879, the Carlisle Indian School set the precedent as the first government-funded off-reservation Indian boarding school in the United States where over 10,000 AI/AN children were enrolled from over 140 Tribes. (5) The Indian Boarding School policy was designed to assimilate AI/AN children into White American culture by stripping them of their cultural identities, often through physical, sexual, psychological, and spiritual 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