Publisher: Buzzfeed News
These First Nations are still picking up the pieces after a government decision flooded their homes.
Before the spring of 2011, Clifford Anderson’s home in Pinaymootang First Nation, Manitoba, was surrounded by greenery. The yard had towering elm trees reaching as high as 40 feet that he and his wife Terry had planted when their sons, Stephan, 34, and Evan, 27, were kids. Theirs was the sort of garden that would make any property feel like home and the Andersons worked hard to maintain it.
Seven years later the house that the Andersons had called home since the 1980s stands abandoned and uninhabitable. The Andersons’ lives were uprooted that spring when one of the worst floods in the province’s history forced the family to evacuate.