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Waneek Horn-Miller was a key member of the Canadian women's water polo team that won gold at the 1999 Pan Am Games. Voted MVP, Horn-Miller became co-captain and proudly led her team at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the first year the Olympics included women’s water polo.
Mar 29, 2018 · 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.
It was a near-death experience that marked a turning point in her life. Waneek has overcome discrimination and violence to emerge as one of North America’s most inspiring female Indigenous speakers with a compelling perspective and dynamic stories to share.
Jun 30, 2021 · One of Canada’s most influential Indigenous athletes, Waneek Horn-Miller’s legacy extends far beyond her time in the pool. From the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory near Montreal, as a teenager Horn-Miller had been behind the lines during the 1990 Oka Crisis and was stabbed by a bayonet.
Sep 18, 2015 · Waneek Horn-Miller was just 14 when she stepped behind the lines of one of Canada's most infamous standoffs. Her sister, Kaniehtiio, was only four years old.
Apr 22, 2021 · In the middle of it all was 14-year-old Waneek Horn-Miller. A promising young athlete in swimming and track and field, Horn-Miller had been holed up with her family for weeks behind the blockade while her mother was a negotiator for the Mohawk resistance.
Sep 18, 2011 · 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.
