Kahn-Tineta Horn | |
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Kahn-Tineta ("she makes the grass wave"), or Kahentinetha | |
Mohawk leader | |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 April 1940 Brooklyn, New York, USA[1] | (age 84)
Children | 4, including Waneek Horn-Miller and Kaniehtiio Horn[2][3] |
Kahn-Tineta Horn (born 16 April 1940, New York City) is a Mohawk political activist, civil servant, and former fashion model.[4][5] Since 1972, she has held various positions in the social, community and educational development policy sections of the Canadian federal Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.[6] She is a member of the Mohawk Bear Clan of Kahnawake.[7]
Horn and her daughters were notable participants in the 1990 Oka Crisis.[8][9] Her daughter, Waneek Horn-Miller (born 1975), was stabbed in the chest by a soldier's bayonet while holding her younger sister, Kaniehtiio, then aged 4; a photograph of the incident, published on the front page of newspapers, symbolized the standoff between Mohawks and the Canadian government.[10] Waneek became a broadcaster, and co-captain of Canada's first women's national water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[11] Kaniehtiio is now a film and television actress.[12] Her eldest daughter, Dr. Ojistoh Horn, is a traditionally minded family medicine physician in Akwesasne.