National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

In January 2020, NABS announced a detailed strategic plan to take place over the next ten years (ending in 2030.) The plan proposes four areas of action: "establishing a national truth and healing center, developing curriculum, producing a documentary series, creating a national digital archive, and issuing policy statements that support the work of tribes and other agencies related to boarding schools."^[7] The strategic plan was enabled by a $10 million donation from the Kendeda Fund.^[8]

Other strategic goals by NABS including engaging the Native American community in conversations with local and national governments, and advocating for policies to document the history of the Native American boarding schools and their effects on Native American communities.^[9] NABS also seeks to engage churches into taking responsibility for their role in the ethnocide of Native American culture, and genocide of Native American children.^[10][11]

In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NABS worked with volunteers from the Tulalip tribe in Washington state to create care packages for American Indian elders who had survived the American Indian boarding schools system. The We Love You! project sent 1,000 care packages to elders or their direct descendants over 60 years old.^[12][13][14] Deborah Parker(Tulalip) proposed the care package project. Each box contained items produced by Native American companies, and included N95 masks, sage bundles, medicine bags, and coloring books.^[15]

NABS has also collaborated with the National Indian Education Association to create "a 12-module curriculum" targeting the long-standing detrimental effects stemming from cultural ethnocide committed by the boarding schools. The program is geared toward Native American educators, students, and community members.^[16]

In June 2021, Christine Diindiisi McCleave, Chief Executive of NABS, announced supported for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, which would investigate records to assess and document known boarding schools. It would also try to determine if there were unidentified remains of children buried on the grounds of such schools.^[17][18]