May 6, 2022
Greetings to our cherished elder,
We hope this email finds you well. We, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) are writing to you because you have been identified as having attended boarding school and/or are a descendent of a boarding school attendee. NABS is currently pursuing the passage of H.R. 5444 / S. 2907, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the US Act. The House Natural Resource Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples is holding a hearing on Thursday, May 12, 2022, on H.R. 5444. We are reaching out to invite you to submit written testimony in support of this legislation.
The House allows for written testimony until May 26, 2022. Therefore, we are humbly asking you to share your story by emailing the House Natural Resource Committee at:
HNRCDocs@mail.house.gov and CC NABS at info@nabshc.org
To familiarize yourself with the legislation, NABS’s one pager can be found here, H.R. 5444/S.2907 the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.
To submit testimony, you may type it into a WORD document and send it as an attachment to the email above. If this sounds too complicated, please consider having a family member help type out the letter for you and send it on your behalf. For assistance, here is a draft template to follow for how to start writing your story for Congress.
If you have any questions, please reach out to NABS at info@nabshc.org
t’igwicid - Thank you,
Deborah Parker
Chief Executive Officer
Sandy White Hawk
President, NABS Board
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