Seeking Peace : A Mohawk’s Journey to Understanding What Success Truly Is

Waneek Horn-Miller

WANEEK HORN-MILLER is a speaker, an advocate, an entrepreneur and an Olympic athlete. A Mohawk from the Kahnawake Mohawk territory, Waneek was behind the lines during the Oka crisis in 1990 when she was stabbed by a Canadian soldier. She was fourteen years old. The near-death experience was a turning point in her life, and she used the incident to fuel her dreams of competing at the Olympic Games. After winning a gold medal at the Pan Am Games in 1999, she co-captained Canada’s water polo team, which finished fifth at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Horn-Miller worked closely with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry and is an advocate for building Indigenous sport with the Assembly of First Nations. She also works with Manitobah Mukluks, where she is director of the Storyboot Project. A graduate of Carleton University, Waneek Horn-Miller lives in Ottawa with her husband and three kids.