Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990. [780 x 439]
Waneek would ultimately survive her wound, and in 2015 she and her younger sister would recall the incident in an interview with CBC.
"Horn-Miller, still holding her sister, ran and made it to the media barricade. When she got there she recognized a soldier who had refused to allow her grade 10 school bus past the blockade a couple of weeks earlier. "I pointed at him and said I know you… as I pointed at him I pulled my little sister behind my back and right at that point I got hit in the chest... and I fell forward and then someone kicked my feet out from underneath me and I landed on my back and my little sister fell on top of me," she recalled. "I felt like my head was going to explode. I was so angry and scared, I was in terror, I had lost it." Someone grabbed both girls then, dragged them away and returned them to their mother. "I handed my little sister to her and I looked down. I felt like my chest hurt and I looked down and I had blood all over the front my shirt and I went 'oh my god'. I looked in my shirt and I had a huge gash in my chest," Horn-Miller said. But instead of medical care, the Mohawks were herded onto a school bus and taken into temporary custody. It would be 22 hours before she was released and taken back to Kahnawake where she finally saw a doctor."
Her sister is actress Kaniehtiio Horn, who is in the show Letterkenny as Tannis, and the show Wayne on Amazon. That’s crazy. I wasn’t aware they were related!
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verostein on December 4th, 2020 at 15:00 UTC »
Waneek would ultimately survive her wound, and in 2015 she and her younger sister would recall the incident in an interview with CBC.
"Horn-Miller, still holding her sister, ran and made it to the media barricade. When she got there she recognized a soldier who had refused to allow her grade 10 school bus past the blockade a couple of weeks earlier. "I pointed at him and said I know you… as I pointed at him I pulled my little sister behind my back and right at that point I got hit in the chest... and I fell forward and then someone kicked my feet out from underneath me and I landed on my back and my little sister fell on top of me," she recalled. "I felt like my head was going to explode. I was so angry and scared, I was in terror, I had lost it." Someone grabbed both girls then, dragged them away and returned them to their mother. "I handed my little sister to her and I looked down. I felt like my chest hurt and I looked down and I had blood all over the front my shirt and I went 'oh my god'. I looked in my shirt and I had a huge gash in my chest," Horn-Miller said. But instead of medical care, the Mohawks were herded onto a school bus and taken into temporary custody. It would be 22 hours before she was released and taken back to Kahnawake where she finally saw a doctor."
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/reflections-of-oka-stories-of-the-mohawk-standoff-25-years-later-1.3232368/sisters-recall-the-brutal-last-day-of-oka-crisis-1.3234550
MrOwlBeback24 on December 4th, 2020 at 16:21 UTC »
Her sister is actress Kaniehtiio Horn, who is in the show Letterkenny as Tannis, and the show Wayne on Amazon. That’s crazy. I wasn’t aware they were related!
M_Rosencrantz on December 4th, 2020 at 18:17 UTC »
There's a very good documentary about the whole thing on the NFB website that I truly recommend. It's a insane story. All that for a golf course.