Michigan’s $1.1 Million Tribal Boarding School Report Buried Despite Calls for Accountability

The state of Michigan spent over $1.1 million commissioning a 300-page report detailing the tragic history of Native American tribal boarding schools—institutions where children suffered abuse, cultural erasure, and death. Yet instead of transparency and restitution, this damning account was buried, leaving survivors without closure and taxpayers with unanswered questions. How long will Washington and Lansing continue to prioritize political convenience over honoring the truth and securing justice for Native families? This report, completed last September by Oregon’s Kauffman and Associates, paints an unflinching portrait of state-sanctioned neglect and community complicity that echoes national patterns of cultural genocide against indigenous...