Indigenous Speaker Series:

Waneek Horn-Miller
Wednesday, 14 March 2018 - 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Location
Where: 
Vanier Hall, 136 Jean-Jacques Lussier (map)
Room number: 
3035
Contact information
Contact person: 
Melanie Neeposh
Email: 
mneeposh@uottawa.ca
Phone: 
613-562-5800
Extension: 
2496
Registration
Registration required: 
No
Cost to attend: 
Free of charge
  • This event is offered only in English.
Event type: 
Lectures & conferences, Lecture/talk
Event organizer: 
Indigenous Resource Centre
Event language: 
English
Intended audience: 
Students, Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Professors, Staff, Alumni

"From Oka to the Olympics and now Reconciliation: A Mohwak Woman's Journey"/D'Oka aux Jeux olympiques, et maintenant la reconcilaition: le voyage d'une femme Mohawk"

Waneek Horn-Miller is an Olympic atheletefrom the Kahnawake Mohawk territory, located on the south shore of Montreal.Waneek was at the front lines during the 1990 Oka crisis and stabbed by a Canadian soldier. She used this life changing experience to fuel her dreams of competing at the Olympics. She is currently working with the Assembly of First Nations as the IndigenACTION Ambassador to develop a National INdigenous Sport, Fitness and Welness Startegy.

 

*Cet événement est seulement offert en anglais*