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File No. 471425 · Adjudicated

Kaniehtiio Horn

Actor — Letterkenny, Reservation Dogs, The Man in the High Castle

Born

1985

Birthplace

OTTAWA, QUEBEC

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

OTTAWA, QUEBEC

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Quebec

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

Her mother is the Mohawk political activist Kahn-Tineta Horn and her half-sister Waneek Horn-Miller was an Olympic water polo co-captain — a family that has been arguing with Canada, and representing it, for three generations.

The verdict

Tanis on Letterkenny, Deer Lady on Reservation Dogs — a Kahnawake Mohawk actress and filmmaker with one of the most interesting résumés on this list. Daughter of the activist Kahn-Tineta Horn, half-sister to Waneek Horn-Miller. Indigenous to this land well before the border showed up. Five points, and then some.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable