Establishes a Truth and Healing Commission to investigate and document the history and lasting effects of Indian boarding schools and the federal policies behind them, and to recommend federal actions in response.

• Creates a 15-year-or-less legislative branch commission with members appointed by congressional leaders and nominated by Tribes, Native organizations, and Native Hawaiian groups, terminating 6 years after enactment
• Requires the commission to investigate boarding school policies, hold trauma-informed convenings across the 12 Bureau of Indian Affairs regions and Hawaii, and report to Congress annually with initial and final reports
• Establishes a Survivors Truth and Healing Subcommittee, a Native American Truth and Healing Advisory Committee, and a Federal and Religious Truth and Healing Advisory Committee within the Department of the Interior to assist the commission
• Provides $90,000,000 for the commission from existing Indian land and financing authorizations, and requires agencies to respond in writing to the final report's recommendations and to allow reburial of repatriated cultural items on federal land

• Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)

Native Americans