Native American. The general lack of public awareness, information, and acknowledgment of the residual impacts of the Indian Boarding School Policy and intergenerational trauma remain, signaling the overdue need for an investigative Federal committee to further document and expose the assimilation and cultural genocide implemented under this policy. 3. Purposes The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) To establish a new Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States to formally investigate and document, for the first time in history, cultural genocide, assimilation practices, and human rights violations of Indian Boarding Schools in the United States, to study the impact and ongoing effects of historical and intergenerational trauma in Tribal communities, and to provide a forum for Indigenous victims and families to discuss the personal impacts of physical, psychological, and spiritual violence. (2) To further develop recommendations for the Federal Government to acknowledge and heal the historical and intergenerational trauma caused by the Federal Indian Boarding School Policy and other cultural genocide practices, including recommendations to stop the continued removal of AI/AN children from their families and Tribal communities under modern-day assimilation practices carried out by State social service departments, foster care agencies, and adoption services. 4. Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Commission The term Commission means the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States established by subsection (b)(1). (2) Indian Boarding School Policy The term Indian Boarding School Policy means the policy of the Federal Government under which more than 100,000 American Indian and Alaska Native children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in any of 460 Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated schools, including 367 Indian boarding schools,