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Truth and Healing Commission subpoena authority jeopardizes support - Indian Country Today

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'As time continues to pass, we will lose the testimonies of survivors and more documents will become misplaced'

Dustan Heistand Gaylord News Efforts to create a federal commission to explore the legacy of the nation’s Indian Boarding Schools has hit a stumbling block. Subpoena authority is triggering warnings in a key House subcommittee as backers hope to advance a bill establishing the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools. The top Republican on the subcommittee said the bill could lose bi-partisan support. The commission is intended to work parallel to the Department of Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative which released its first report one day before the hearing. Re

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