‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community

Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities

Chad Medicine Horn starts each day mopping his bedroom floor and bleaching the walls to kill the fresh black mould.

A few hours later, the floor is once again soaked by groundwater seeping into the converted basement that he shares with his four-year-old grandson. They spend afternoons trying to stop the murky water soaking their double bed and few surviving clothes and toys with squeegee mops donated by the Red Cross.