Recognizes the week of September 27 through October 3, 2026, as "National Orange Shirt Week" to honor Indian boarding school victims and survivors.
This bill recognizes the week of September 27 through October 3, 2026, as "National Orange Shirt Week" or "National Week of Remembrance" to honor those who were forced to attend Indian boarding schools and to recognize the experience of Indian boarding school victims and survivors. The bill highlights the history of assimilation policies that stripped American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children of their cultural identities and led to physical, sexual, psychological, industrial, and spiritual abuse and neglect.
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