Mohawk Athlete Draws Her Strength From 1990 Tragedy

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DENVER - Waneek Horn-Miller, the most decorated athlete at the North American Indigenous Games and one of the world's best water polo players, easily could have called it quits after she was stabbed in the chest during the 1990 Oka standoff in Canada.

The soldier's bloody bayonet didn't take her life, and she realized even at 14 that if she allowed her heart to fill with anger her spirit would be as broken as her body.

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Mohawk Athlete Draws Her Strength From 1990 Tragedy

"It was awful. It was really awful. I got post-traumatic stress disorder from it. But you can't give all your power over to that," Horn-...

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