BIOGRAPHY
Eleanor Millard
In 1965, Eleanor Millard came to the Yukon for a summer job as a barmaid in Dawson City. Entranced with its beauty, history, and its First Nations, she stayed.
She was Northern Area Social Worker covering several communities, one accessible only by plane. In 1974, she was elected MLA for the Northern Yukon and became Minister of Education.
Now with two Master's degrees, one in adult education and one in teaching English as a second language, Eleanor works in social and educational positions and in consulting, mostly with First Nations in small communities. She lives in Carcross, a First Nation community south of Whitehorse.
Her first book, River Child, was published in 2002 and is a collection of nineteen linked stories that explore cross-cultural conflicts in the Klondike. She has presented fiction writing workshops and has done readings in the Yukon, NWT, B.C., and Alaska.
Journeys Outside and In narrates through creative non-fiction Eleanor’s experiences in the North and in Central America. The term “Outside” is used to describe any place south of 60 degrees latitude. As journeys “inside”, the issues of a White professional working and living with First Nations in the North and the emotional challenges of journeying with them is explored with passion and candour.