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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.
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Dec 12, 2022 · Waneek Horn-Miller, a Mohawk water polo player and Canada's first indigenous Olympian, testified before a parliamentary committee on the status of women. She called for an inquiry with teeth to address systemic abuse in sport and shared her own experience of harassment and exclusion.
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 · Learn about Waneek Horn-Miller's journey from the 1990 Oka Crisis to the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where she co-captained Canada's women's water polo team. Discover how she became a sports hall of famer, a torchbearer, a broadcaster and a social change maker for Indigenous communities.
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.
