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handle is hein.congrecreports/crptaeyw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 117TH CONGRESS J REPT. 117-595 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 TRUTH AND HEALING COMMISSION ON INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL POLICIES ACT DECEMBER 7, 2022.-Ordered to be printed Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following R E P O R T together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 5444] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 5444) to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that- (1) assimilation processes, such as the Indian Boarding School Policies, were adopted by the United States Government to strip American Indian, Alaska Na- tive, and Native Hawaiian children of their Indigenous identities, beliefs, and languages to assimilate them into non-Native culture through federally funded and controlled Christian-run schools, which had the intent and, in many cases, the effect, of termination, with dire and intentional consequences on the cul- tures and languages of Indigenous peoples; (2) assimilation processes can be traced back to- (A) the enactment of the Act of March 3, 1819 (3 Stat. 516, chapter 85) (commonly known as the Indian Civilization Fund Act of 1819), which cre- ated a fund to administer the education, healthcare, and rations promised 39-006