Waneek Horn-Miller

DVD 2005

Waneek Horn-Miller, a Mohawk from Kahnawake, Québec, was a key member of the Canadian Women's Water Polo team that won gold at the 1999 Pan Am Games. Voted MVP, Waneek became co-captain and proudly led her team at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Only 10 years earlier, at 14, she was struck to the ground by a soldier's bayonet during the Oka Crisis. Despite the fear and anger that plagued her afterwards, she chose to re-enter the outside world throu...

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Indigenous peoples North America Québec (Province) Biography