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A no trespassing sign stands in front of a boarded-up schoolhouse on the campus of the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School. (Photo: Mark Hoover for Bridge Michigan)
Mark Hoover
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for Bridge Michigan
Michigan spent $1.1M probing tribal boarding schools, then buried the results
Ron French | Bridge Michigan
Michigan’s Native American boarding schools were known for physical and sexual abuse. The last to close was in 1983, in Harbor Springs. A state study to document those abuses is finished but won’t be released to the public.
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