Boarding school

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.

The event comes after bishops from around the U.S. wrote a letter apologizing for the church’s role in abusing children and suppressing Native American culture.

The study would look at data involving abuse, deaths, and disappearances at boarding schools were Native American children had been forced to attend.

The effort aims to collect the stories of those who survived boarding schools run by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, as recently as the 1980s.