The Michigan Indian Boarding School Research Initiative is a collaboration between the Native American Institute (NAI) at MSU, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and MSU Libraries. The goal of the initiative is to provide tribal repatriation officers, tribal historians, tribal scholars, tribal educators, and tribal historians with database access to support their research and repatriation efforts involving, but not limited to, the state of Michigan’s Indian Boarding School Study.

The cost of licensure fees for many of these databases is prohibitive for tribes. The Michigan Indian Boarding School Research Initiative will provide access to thousands of databases, both nationally and internationally, that tribal affiliates would not otherwise have.