The town had decided to buildĬondominiums and expand a golf course into a forest and burial land that the Mohawk considered sacred. On 11 July 1990, Mohawk protesters clashed with Quebec provincial police over disputed land in Oka, Quebec. Horn-Miller first received national media attention during the Oka Crisis in 1990. Horn-Miller became the provincial champion for her age group in 1989. To help her excel, Kahn-Tineta Horn, a single mother, moved the family Horn-Miller began swimming competitively at age seven and participated in meets from 1982 to 1997. Her two older sisters are a doctor and professor, respectively. Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, was a prominent Indigenous-rights activist, and her father, George Miller, was anĪcademic.Waneek’s youngest sister, Kaniehtiio Horn, is a Gemini Award-nominated actress. In 1975 and was the second youngest of four daughters. Horn-Miller was born to Mohawk parents in Montreal, Quebec,
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