The Haines House in an archival photo. Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl, who is from a Klukwan clan, said she was taken to the Haines House without consent of her parents. (19943020004/Courtesy of the Sheldon Museum, Haines, Alaska)
The Haines House in an archival photo. Sealaska Heritage Institute President Rosita Worl, who is from a Klukwan clan, said she was taken to the Haines House without consent of her parents. (19943020004/Courtesy of the Sheldon Museum, Haines, Alaska)

Alaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and document the forced assimilation of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children in government-funded boarding schools.

House Joint Resolution 17acknowledges the…