Erin Millions
Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: 204.786.9707
Office: 3A21
Building: Ashdown
Email: e.millions@uwinnipeg.ca
Degrees:
Ph.D. History - University of Manitoba (2018)
M.A. History - University of Saskatchewan (2004)
B.A. Honours History - University of Saskatchewan (2000)
Biography:
Dr. Erin Millions (she/her) is a settler historian of colonialism, childhood, commemoration, and Indigenous histories in Canada, with a focus on Indigenous health and education. Her work centers community-engagement and Indigenous perspectives in exploring 19th- and 20th-century interactions between Indigenous peoples and British/Canadian colonialism. Dr. Millions’ current research centers British-Métis children’s lived experiences and trans-Atlantic kin relations in exploring their educational experiences in fur trade country, colonial Canada, and Britain. Dr. Millions’ public-engaged history work includes the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project, Indigenous Afternoons in the Archives, community-centered commemoration of the Indian Residential School System with Parks Canada, the Welcoming Winnipeg Initiative Committee of Community Members, Canadian Geographic Paths to Reconciliation Project, and historical research for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the BBC.
Affiliations:
- Canadian Historical Association
- Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History
Teaching Areas:
Indigenous histories northern North America, children and childhood history, Indigenous peoples in the British Empire, public history
Courses:
HIST-1006(3) Indigenous History to 1900: Origins, Contact, Colonialism
HIST-1007(3) Indigenous History Since 1900: Racism, Resistance, Renewal
HIST-2610(3) Aboriginal Peoples of Canada to 1815
HIST-3623(3) Aboriginal Women’s Twentieth Century History (IS/WGS-3523)
HIST-3625(3) History of the Métis in Canada
HIST-4570(6)/HIST-7004 Aboriginals and Newcomers in Encounter: Selected Topics
Research Interests:
Editor, Artifactual Column, Prairie History, 2020-ongoing.
with Amanda McLeod. Entries on Sussex Vale Indian College, Lockwood Boarding School, Teulon Boarding Residence, Montreal Lake/Timber Bay Children’s Residence, Red River Indian Mission, Fort William Sanatorium School, Coqualeetza Indian Hospital School, Western Arctic Leadership Program, (with Amanda McLeod), Canadian Geographic Paths to Reconciliation Project, 2023
Podcast. The Story of a National Crime, by Knockabout Media, 5 episodes, 2022.
with Mary Jane Logan McCallum. “Toppling Colonialism: Historians, Genocide and Missing Indigenous Children,” in Prairie History (Summer 2021).
with Ian Mosby. “Canada’s Residential Schools Were a Horror,” Scientific American, 1 August 2021.
with Mary Jane McCallum and Margaret (Anne) Lindsay. Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project website, launched June 2021.
“Portraits and Gravestones: Documenting the Transnational Life Histories of British-Metis Fur Trade Students,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 29 no.1 (Fall 2018): 1-38.
“‘By Education and Conduct’: Educating Trans-Imperial Indigenous Fur-Trade Children in the Hudson’s Bay Company Territories and the British Empire, 1820s to 1870s,” PhD diss, University of Manitoba, 2018,
“On Being a Scholar-Ally in the Wake of the Gerald Stanley Verdict,” ActiveHistory.ca, 13 February 2018.
Online Lectures:
with Margaret (Anne) Lindsay. “The Patients Who Never Came Home: ‘Indian’ Tuberculosis and Indigenous Health Care in Manitoba, 1930s-1970s,” Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba, 2022.
Roundtable. “Doing the Work: What settlers need to know about the residential school system in Canada,” Center for Human Rights Research, 2021.
with Mary Jane Logan McCallum. “Historical Photographs are Health Records: Indigenous Tuberculosis History,” Shingwauk Residential School Center Archive, 2021.
Select Grants and Awards:
Co-Applicant. “Advancing and Mobilizing Indigenous Tuberculosis Knowledge: Impacts of Racially Segregated Tuberculosis Treatment in Manitoba,” Canadian Institute for Health Research Project Grant, $520,000, 2020-2023. Primary Investigator Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum.
Honourable Mention. Neil Sutherland Article Prize, History of Children and Youth Group, Canadian Historical Association, 2020.
Indigenous and Northern Initiatives Fund. Northern Outreach Program: Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis Photo Project, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Manitoba, $25,000, 2020-2022.
Best Dissertation in Canadian Studies, Canadian Studies Network, 2018.