I feel like we have no home’: Stoney Reserve restoration sees little … – Calgary Herald

July 16, 2015

‘I feel like we have no home’: Stoney Reserve restoration sees little progress since 2013 flood

Inside a small room at the Stoney Nakoda Reserve’s Elder’s Lodge, Henry Ear lives with his wife and four children, writes Sammy Hudes.

For the past five months, the six of them have eaten, breathed and slept in the same room. Before that, they spent a year living in a trailer after a previous four-month stint at the lodge in late 2013. But two years since floods ravaged their home on the reserve, it doesn’t seem like they are any closer to living normal lives again.

“It’s exhausting,” Ear said. “It seems like I’m left behind on some world that’s been just going and I’m stuck in one place.”

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