The National Day of Remembrance for Native American children honors children who died years ago while attending the United States’ Indian boarding schools each Sept. 30. On that day this year, a bill was reintroduced in both the Senate and the House to establish an American Indian Truth and Healing Commission on Indian boarding schools.
The bill’s purposes include both truth-seeking and healing. It asks “to formally investigate and document” the impact of the trauma that resulted from Indian boa...