Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is among a group of senators pushing for a commission into Indian boarding schools in the U.S.Murkowski, a Republican, said Wednesday she’s joined 26 other senators to reintroduce a bill to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States. “It is past time the U.S. government come to terms with the dark legacy of the Indian boarding school era, which attempted to destroy Native American cultures, religions, and languages,” Murkowski said in a statement. “A formal truth and healing commission will help address those past injustices and support processes that bring healing to survivors, their families, and communities. The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report was released later that year. The report outlined that the Federal Indian boarding school system ran from 1819 to 1969 and involved 408 federal schools, including 21 in Alaska.
