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.

Starting in the early 1800s, the U.S. government forcibly removed hundreds of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children — some as young as 3 — from their families and sent them to at least 526 known boarding schools across 38 states, where they were stripped of their languages, cultures, and identities, often through physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Many children died at these schools, some buried in unmarked graves, and the intergenerational trauma continues to manifest in Native communities through disproportionate rates of suicide, substance abuse, PTSD, and chronic disease. This resolution recognizes the week of September 30 as National Orange Shirt Week, honoring boarding school victims and survivors and calling for greater public awareness and accountability for this dark chapter in American history.