Kahentinetha

Kahentinetha, also known as Kahn-Tineta, Horn (born April 16, 1940, New York City), is an American writer, editor, political activist, former civil servant in the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and former fashion model. She is a member of the Mohawk Bear Clan of Kahnawake.

Kahentinetha was a notable participant in the 1990 Oka Crisis. Her daughter, Waneek Horn-Miller, then aged 15, 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. Waneek became a broadcaster, and co-captain of Canada's first women's national water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Kaniehtiio is now a film and television actress. Her eldest daughter, Dr. Ojistoh Horn, is a traditionally minded family medicine physician in Akwesasne.

Kahentinetha has been editing the Mohawk Nation News service since 1990, and contributed to several publications including editing the oral history compendium The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival. She is one of the plaintiffs regrouped within the Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera's legal case against McGill University and other defendants, resulting in an injunction halting development on the grounds of the former Royal Victoria Hospital to search for unmarked graves of victims of the MKUltra experiments.