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Outlook: Stabbed Fighting for Mohawk Rights

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Waneek Horn-Miller

20/01/2016 GMT

Stabbed Fighting for Mohawk Rights

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The Canadian Olympian who survived a violent land protest as a child.

Waneek Horn-Miller is a Canadian Olympian who comes from the First Nation Mohawk people. As a teenager she was stabbed by a soldier during a land rights protest.

Waneek Horn-Miller is famous for co-captaining Canada's waterpolo team during the 2000 Olympic Games.  But her life could have been very different. Waneek comes from the First Nation Mohawk people and as a teenager she was stabbed by a soldier during a land rights protest that turned violent.

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(Photo: Waneek Horn-Miller. Credit: Waneek Horn-Miller)

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