The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States held a hearing to examine a recent Interior Department investigation that found abuses at a majority of the 408 federal Indian boarding schools that operated from 1819 to 1969 across 37 states. Several of the boarding schools were also funded or sponsored by religious institutions. Native American advocates and survivors of the boarding school system recounted personal and family stories of forced cultural assimilation as well as mental, physical, and sexual abuse endured by Native American children at these facilities. Also, Native American scholars testified on the impact of and the abuses attributed to the boarding school system.