Recognizing the week of September 30th as "National Orange Shirt Week" or "National Week of Remembrance", which aims to honor those who were forced to attend Indian boarding schools, and to recognize the experience of Indian boarding school victims and survivors.
HRES 1526 is a House resolution recognizing the week of September 30th as "National Orange Shirt Week" or "National Week of Remembrance." It honors victims and survivors of U.S. Indian boarding schools, which forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families to erase their cultures. The resolution symbolically acknowledges the historical trauma caused by these schools, which operated from the 1800s through the 1960s. As a procedural resolution, it does not create new laws or affect specific policies.
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