Canadian Sports Legend Waneek HornMiller on Indigenous Activism, Her
Kahnawake, Québec Residence Kahnawake Personal Channels Biography As a member of the women's national water polo team, Waneek Horn-Miller won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. She then served as co-captain of the first Canadian women's Olympic water polo team that finished fifth at Sydney 2000.
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Similar to the arduous process of making wampum beads, the journey of that Waneek Horn Miller doesn't begin and end with being a Olympic Water Polo athlete. A Mohawk from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory near Montreal, Waneek was behind the lines during the Oka crisis in 1990 when she was stabbed by a Canadian soldier's bayonet.
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Waneek Horn-Miller competed for Canada with the water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. (Jeff De Booy/The Canadian Press) She said her opinions on certain issues.
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That same year, she appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, striking an iconic image of strength, power and perseverance. A long-time advocate for the health of Indigenous communities, Horn-Miller was the host of Working It Out Together—a 13-part documentary and healthy-eating initiative with the Aboriginal Peoples' Television Network.
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Waneek Horn-Miller. 2,303 likes · 1 talking about this. Waneek Horn-Miller is an Aboriginal advocate and Olympic athlete from the Kahnawake Mohawk territory
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Horn-Miller's public life began in 1990 at the age of 14. During the Oka Crisis, she protested the planned development of condos and a golf course on traditional Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) lands and burial grounds near Montreal.
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Waneek Horn-Miller, athlete, activist, broadcaster (born 30 November 1975 in Montreal, QC). Horn-Miller, a Mohawk from Kahnawake, Quebec, was co-captain of Canada's first Olympic women's water polo team and a gold medallist in water polo at the 1999 Pan American Games.
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Waneek Horn-Miller (born November 30, 1975) is a Canadian water polo player from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. [1] She was a member of the Canadian women's water polo team that won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. [2] Horn-Miller also became the first Mohawk woman from Canada to ever compete in the Olympic games. [3]
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Figure 1 (A) On 26 September 1990, on the final day of the Oka standoff, Waneek Horn-Miller was trying to leave while carrying her 4-year-old sister, Kaniehtiio, when she was stabbed close to the heart by a soldier carrying a bayonet (Photo: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press).
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Breaking News Headlines & Top Stories | The Star Dec 31, 1969 It was a moment captured forever by a photo that continues to appear in newspapers across the country. Horn-Miller says it wasn't.
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Canadian Sports Legend Waneek Horn-Miller on Indigenous Activism, Her Love of Competition and a Lifetime of Overcoming Challenges Johanna Schneller | April 10th, 2023 Waneek Horn-Miller is one of the coaches on the new series 'Canada's Ultimate Challenge'. Photo: Courtesy of CBC
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Waneek Horn-Miller on celebrating the strength and resilience of Indigenous women. By Kelly Boutsalis Updated June 3, 2019 Photo, Nadya Kwandibens It was time, Waneek Horn-Miller.
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4 years ago 2:39 Canadian athletes have been speaking out against racism and for change, including tennis youngster Felix Auger-Aliassime, basketball legend Steve Nash, and Olympians Kia Nurse,.
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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. Horn-Miller, grabbed national attention after posing nude for the cover of Time magazine.
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