Treading water
Description
In 2011, 2100 First Nation people were forced from their homes after artificially diverted floodwater swamped their communities to save the city of Winnipeg and other major urban centers.Three years later, evacuees are still stranded and drowning as the pawns in a political firestorm between the First Nation bands, the Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters, hotel owners and the federal and provincial governments. The displacement has triggered a rise in substance abuse and suicide rates. Plans for getting people home seem to be at a standstill.Treading Water is a deeply intimate look at the unexpected, untold story of the real-life evacuees behind the national headlines of the 2011 Manitoba flood.
Runtime
48 minutes
Subjects
- Dikes (Engineering) (1)
- Indians of North America (388)
- Floods (41)
- Emergency management (56)
- Flood control (11)
- Disaster relief (37)
Geography
Genre
Database
Alexander Street
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