- A state report on tribal boarding schools was meant to examine the state’s role in abuses
- That report wasn’t released to the public
- The full report obtained by Bridge includes accounts of abuse from survivors
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.
As first reported by Bridge Michigan, that $1.1 million report was never released, and a summary presented to the Legislature left out recommendations made by the consulting firm. Bridge obtained a copy of the 300-page report, which includes accounts by survivors of abuse in the homes, as well as glimpses of the roles the state and communities played in the federally funded boarding schools that closed more than 40 years ago.
Now, a House appropriations subcommittee has scheduled a hearing Feb. 27 about the report and why it was scrapped after its completion in September.
“We’d like to get some understanding of why we spent over a million dollars on a 300-page report and then threw the report in the garbage can,” said Rep. Tom Kuhn, R-Troy, chair of the general government subcommittee.
The Department of Civil Rights, which oversaw the report and then chose not to release it to the public or the Legislature, has declined an invitation to testify, he said.
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