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Kahn-Tineta Horn
Mohawk political activist and fashion model / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kahn-Tineta Horn (born 16 April 1940, New York City) is a Mohawk political activist, civil servant, and former fashion model.[3][4] 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.[5] She is a member of the Mohawk Bear Clan of Kahnawake.[6]
Kahn-Tineta Horn | |
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Kahn-Tineta ("she makes the grass wave"), or Kahentinetha | |
![]() Kahn-Tineta Horn in 1963. | |
Mohawk leader | |
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Born | 16 April 1940 (1940-04-16) (age 84) New York City |
Children | 4, including Waneek Horn-Miller and Kaniehtiio Horn[1][2] |
Horn and her daughters were notable participants in the 1990 Oka Crisis.[7][8] 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.[9] Waneek became a broadcaster, and co-captain of Canada's first women's national water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[10] Kaniehtiio is now a film and television actress.[11] Her eldest daughter, Dr. Ojistoh Horn, is a traditionally minded family medicine physician in Akwesasne.