FINANCEMENT / RECHERCHE, CONCERTATION
Julie Vaudrin-Charette
Michelle E. Smith
Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller at Humanities and Public Life Conference at Dawson College
Journeys
and the First Peoples Initiative at Dawson College are honoured to welcome Waneek Horn Miller to the Humanities and Public Life Conference
Wednesday September 20 1pm in 5B.16 Dawson College.
Waneek Horn-Miller has been a strong advocate for Indigenous health and wellness across Turtle Island. Kanien'kéha from Kahnawake and Ohsweken, Waneek has travelled extensively in the Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds sharing her story of how she was able to turn a traumatic experience of being stabbed by a Canadian soldier during the Oka Crisis to becoming an Olympian 10 years later.
As a member of the women’s national water polo team, Waneek 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 in Sydney 2000. She went on to help Canada win a bronze medal at the 2001 FINA World Championships. She is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa where she was a three-time athlete of the year.
Waneek is currently working as the brand ambassador for the Indigenous owned footwear company Manitobah Mukluks, and is the director of the Storyboot Project, a program that supports traditional artists by selling their work for art prices world wide, and the
running of storyboot schools, where the art of mukluks and moccasin making is passed on to the next generation. She is Creator and host of
Working it Out Together on APTN. http://aptn.ca/workingitouttogether/full-episodes/season-3/
Cinema/Communications
Dawson College
Steering Committee,
First Peoples Initiative
514-961-4047