Million, Tara

Faculty

Indigenous Studies

Phone
(403) 332-4665
Email
tara.million@uleth.ca

About Me


Tara Million is nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and is a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation located within Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, Canada. She is actively involved in undertaking traditional experiential learning centered on the ceremonies and protocols involved with being a pipe carrier.

Ms. Million is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Lethbridge.

PhD Candidate (ABD), University of Saskatchewan
MLIS San Jose State University (2016)
MA University of Alberta (2002)
BA with Distinction University of Alberta (1998)
Audio-Visual Communications Grant MacEwan Community College (1989)

Biography


Tara Million is also a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and was the recipient of a Dean's Scholarship. Dr. Simon Lambert is her supervisor. Her dissertation is titled: "Addressing lateral violence in the workplace: Cree literature, Wetiko legal principles, and Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety policies". Her Master's thesis, "Using Circular Paradigms within an Archaeological Framework: Receiving Gifts from White Buffalo Calf Woman", was completed in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and focused on developing an Indigenous archaeology. Her Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) had a management specialization and was conducted entirely on-line in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University with a culminating e-portfolio.

Since 1999, Ms. Million has presented regularly at regional, national, and international conferences, including Chacmool, Congress, American Anthropological Association conference, the World Archaeological Congress, International Indigenous Librarians Forum, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, on a variety of archaeological, library science, and Indigenous Studies topics.

Tara Million previously worked for 12 years as a public library manager in a variety of locations: Lakeland Library Region and Saskatoon Public Library in Saskatchewan and at the Hinton Municipal Library in Alberta, where she also managed the Coal Branch Archives. During this time, she worked concurrently for 7 years as a sessional instructor at the North West Regional College and for the Dumont Technical Institute delivering a variety of university, college, and adult education courses to rural students in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. From 2021-2022, she was a Lecturer, with term, at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Indigenous Studies.

She has served as a board member for a variety of local and provincial organizations and was an Indigenous Steering Committee Member for the World Archaeological Congress (2001-2003). Recently, Ms. Million was the Treasurer for the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples committee and represented LSSAP at the 2019 International Indigenous Librarians Forum and on the Saskatchewan Multi-Type Library Board.

Publications


Million, T. (2021). Sharing stories: the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling project. IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Journal, October, 2021 (Special issue: Indigenous librarianship). https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352211018233

Million, T. (2010). Developing an Aboriginal archaeology: receiving gifts from White Buffalo Calf Woman. In M. Bruchac, S. Hart, & H. M. Wobst (Eds.), Indigenous archaeologies: A reader on decolonization (pp. 189-192). Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Million, T. (2005). Comment on "Dwelling at the margins, action at the intersection? Feminist and indigenous archaeologies, 2005". Archaeologies - Journal of The World Archaeological Congress, 1(1), 67-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-005-0006-6

Million, T. (2005). Developing an Aboriginal archaeology: receiving gifts from White Buffalo Calf Woman. In C. Smith & H. M. Wobst (Eds.), Indigenous archaeology: Decolonizing theory and practice (pp. 43-55). London and New York: Routledge.

Million, T. J. (2004). Using circular paradigms within an archaeological framework: Receiving gifts from White Buffalo Calf Woman. Unpublished master's thesis. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/97943473-2ae6-4fc3-a0a4-d95354a25425/view/3e65a672-7a8f-4b44-aa91-442cf1d8d9da/MQ81317.pdf

Million, T. (2004). On being an Aboriginal graduate student. In R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson (Eds.), Native peoples: The Canadian experience, 3rd Edition (pp. 9). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Million, T. (2004). Exploring the history of archaeological theory and method utilizing cyclical time paradigms. In J. Oakes, R. Riewe, Y. Belanger, S. Blady, K. Legge & P. Wiebe (Eds.), Aboriginal cultural landscapes (pp. 66-75). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press.

Million, T. (2003). The Ghost Dance of archaeology. In T. Peck, E. Siegfried, & G. Oetelaar (Eds), Indigenous people & archaeology: Proceedings of the 32nd annual Chacmool Conference (pp. 52-68). Calgary AB: Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary.

Cardinal, T. (1996). The moon and the wolves. In B. Brant & S. Laronde (Eds.), Sweetgrass grows all around her (pp. 63). Toronto, ON: Native Women in the Arts.

Research Interests


Tara Million's current research involves identifying Cree law and developing Occupational Health and Safety policies that address lateral violence in the workplace.

Her research interests include Indigenous literature, Indigenous law, Indigenous research methodologies, organizational Indigenization, organizational and workplace culture, change leadership and change management, conflict resolution and HR practices, applied and community-based research, and paradigm shifting.