Residents from Long Plain First Nation have been relocated for two months, since tornadoes struck their community in July. Linda Bunn says they have to move again due to black-out dates during the Canad Inns Classics.

"We're going to Holiday Inn in Winnipeg, and some are going to be there until Christmas time. And it's really hard on the children and the parents, too. This is my sixth move already from hotel to hotel, and home, and to hotel again. The tornadoes were on July 20th, we moved here at 11:00 at night. Then we went to Winnipeg Hilton; from the Hilton we went to Sandman; from the Sandman we came back here. Then I went home for a while, and then I went to Days Inn, because my place was not ready. Then I came back here again. And now we're going back to Winnipeg."

She explains the children have apparently been traumatized by the tornadoes and are in need of counselling. 

"Some have six kids, seven kids. I have two grandchildren that I'm raising -- ten and three years old. And there's a lot of problems that come with this. We haven't had counselling for the kids yet. And I've asked chief and council from day one to counsel these children because as soon as there's rain and a storm outside, or dark clouds, the kids are panicking already. And their behaviour, of course, is not normal. We live out in nature where there are storms, but tornadoes are different. Even when my little guy who's three years old was watching TV, and there was a tornado in the cartoon, he just went under the blankets, and said, 'Tornado!' And then he just hid there. They're scared. We need something. We need counselling for the kids, and even for the parents. It's really stressful for the single mothers, and some of them have five to seven kids. They've moved from place to place to hotel room. They lost their homes. They lost their beds. They lost their clothes. They lost everything. They even lost their summer. We need counsellors here for the children. There was an airplane that went by. And right away the kids were hiding, and said they thought it was a tornado again. It's hard for the moms to be confined to a small room with five kids. I have two, but even with that it's really hard. There's open space at the reserve. They have their trees and they can run in the grass, but here it's cement. A lot of the kids' feet are sore, and a lot of them are sick. Same with the adults. They're getting sick, too. They said, 'We'll have activities for them.' I said we don't want activities. I want counselling for the kids. Kids come first for me. The teenagers, too. They're lost, too."

Bunn notes the move to Winnipeg means the children won't be able to attend school at Long Plain again, after having been bused to classes at home each day.

"It's really hard to see the kids like this. And now they're going to another school again in the City (Winnipeg). And so we lived in the reserve to the City (of Winnipeg). It's going to be a really different world for them."

Despite all the negative circumstances they've experienced, Bunn says she feels their stay in Portage hotels was a God-send.

"They've been really good to us here. The staff have been good to us. The housing. They've been patient where we eat, you know, the dining room; they've been really good to us. I've had no problems with them. And I don't give them problems, either. I'm thankful for this place here, for the hotel. I'm really thankful. God sent us here."