With the repatriation of his remains, Percy Onabigon is finally home and reunited with his late siblings in Long Lake #58 First Nation — decades after he was separated from them, put in a residential school and buried over 1,200 kilometres from the Ojibway community in northwestern Ontario.

Last week, Percy's remains were escorted by the Ontario Provincial Police's truth and reconciliation vehicle to Long Lake #58, where his life was celebrated and he was interred in his final resting place.

His family's fight to repatriate his remains at the First Nation where he was born took place over many decades. After he spent time in St. Joseph's Indian Residential School in Thunder Bay, he was sent to a number of hospitals and institutions because he was epileptic and partially paralyzed.

His f

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