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Shelved $1.1M Report Urged Michigan Apology for Tribal Boarding School Abuse
The $1.1 million report details physical and sexual abuse, deaths, and trauma at Michigan tribal boarding schools but omits key consultant recommendations including an official apology.
- A state-funded $1.1 million report on Michigan tribal boarding schools was completed but not released, and Bridge Michigan obtained the full study, while a House appropriations subcommittee scheduled a hearing Feb. 27 to examine why it was scrapped.
- The department said the report was 'shoddy' and raised privacy concerns, while Kauffman accused the state of 'whitewashing' findings.
- The report includes testimony from 28 survivors and detailed recommendations, documenting abuse and urging gubernatorial apology, subpoena archival research, assault statute removal, and language revitalization funding.
- Attorney General's office opened a criminal probe recently, though Danielle Hagaman-Clark said prosecutions may be slim; Rep. Tom Kuhn pressed lawmakers on the study's cost and invited Kauffman to testify.
- The shelved study mirrors a national reckoning after President Joe Biden's 2024 apology, joining state reports from Colorado, Wisconsin, and New York, and documenting over 100 years of boarding schools with at least 417 federal-operated sites.
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Michigan tribal boarding school report sought apology. Instead, it was shelved
A shelved, taxpayer-funded report on tribal boarding schools recommended an apology for Michigan’s role in the deaths and abuse of Native American children.
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