ChangeMaker: An Aboriginal Using Sports to Heal Her Traumatic Past
Craig and Marc Kielburger
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Posted 04.22.2013
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Canada Impact
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In 1990 when Quebec Mohawks were protesting plans by the community of Oka to build a golf course on traditional Mohawk burial grounds, a Canadian soldier thrust his bayonet into the chest of Mohawk teenager named Waneek Horn-Miller, nearly killing her. In the years that followed, Horn-Miller used sports to help overcome her trauma and anger.
