This Detroit News article has a premise that supports the need for Michigan to appropriate more money to the tuition waiver and does an adequate job of summarizing the history of the program, except for this small paragraph about the purpose of the Mt. Pleasant boarding school:
The native boarding schools were part of a national movement aimed at educating native children so they could get training in a skill to sustain a livelihood. In shutting down the exchange, the state agreed to fund higher education for Native Americans.
This is a sugar-coated annotation for what was really a disturbing and disgraceful time in American history.
Turtle Talk 
Reblogged this on Nicole A. Raslich and commented:
I completely agree that this view of American boarding schools is warped.
While I’m happy to see this issue getting some well-deserved, major coverage, I thought this article did a paltry job of describing the breadth of the windfall. It seems Native issues are always framed within a vignette of nostalgia (likely thanks to a continuing “vanished peoples” narrative and I don’t think this piece is any exception. I’m an NMU student with friends afraid of misappropriated Waiver funds and their implications for their educations. I’d like to see the Detroit News follow up with some in-depth why-and-how reporting, rather than leaving concerned readers wondering how this shameful debacle even began.