b'HEALING THROUGH SPORTWANEEK HORN-MILLER: By Sarah B. HoodRECONCILIATION THROUGH SPORTPassing down a message of self-care is part of the healing journey, says an OlympianA t the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, sprint kayaker Alwyn Morris won Gold and Bronze medals. A Mohawk from Kahnaw:ke near Montreal, he was the first Indigenous Canadian athlete to achieve Gold at a Summer Olympic Games. On the podium, he famously raised an eagle feather. It was this gesture that inspired many viewers, among them a young Waneek Horn-Miller. It was a simple act, but one that ultimately paved the way for Horn-Miller to set her sights on a sporting career. Seeing Morriss achievements, she also dreamed of going to the Olympics, and it became a goal she would one day realize, becoming the first Mohawk woman from Canada to compete in the Olympic Games, in water polo.Today, Horn-Miller builds on her own success to bring the healing power of sports to all Indigenous peopleand to Canada as a nation.Before she came to prominence as an athlete, however, Horn-Miller was thrust into the spotlight through a tragic incident at the 1990 Oka Crisis, when Mohawks actively resisted development on disputed land. A teenager at the time, she was stabbed by a soldiers bayonet as she carried her little sister. The images horrified people across the country, and Horn-Millers life has been a public one ever since.58Spring/Summer 2022'