Agnes Mills (b. 1936)

Agnes Mills is a Vuntut Gwitchin Elder. She attended a residential school outside her community of Old Crow until she was thirteen. When the school was affected by a wave of tuberculosis, Agnes was sent to a hospital in Aklavik for three years.¹⁾

Agnes has worked to advance the rights of Indigenous people as the National Elder of the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation.²⁾ The Partnership has developed training courses based on cultural strengths and a trauma-informed approach.³⁾ Agnes was the First Nation Elder at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre.⁴⁾

Agnes Mills was indicted into the Order of Yukon in 2020.