‘A lost tribe': Child welfare system accused of repeating residential school history, sapping Aboriginal kids from their homes

‘A lost tribe': Child welfare system accused of repeating residential school history, sapping Aboriginal kids from their homes

Elders from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in north-western Ontario remember the bus that drove around their reserve picking up children and shuttling them to a waiting plane for a 345 kilometre flight north to Sandy Lake, a remote community with no outside road link, except for ice roads built on frozen lakes and rivers during the winter.