This resolution designates the week of September 27 through October 3, 2026, as "National Orange Shirt Week" or "National Week of Remembrance" to honor those affected by Indian boarding schools. The resolution documents the historical policy of forcing American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children into federally funded, church-run boarding schools from 1819 through the 1960s, where hundreds of thousands of children were subjected to abuse, neglect, and cultural suppression designed to strip them of their Indigenous identities and languages. The resolution acknowledges the documented lasting harms of these policies, including high rates of intergenerational trauma, mental health crises, suicide, and health disparities that continue to affect Native communities today. It references research showing that 75 percent of Indian boarding school survivors attempted suicide and that many children died in these institutions and were buried in unmarked graves. The resolution calls for greater public awareness and accountability regarding these historical injustices and their ongoing impacts on Native peoples.