Eileen Kampakuta Brown
Born(1938-01-01)1 January 1938
NationalityAustralian
OrganizationKupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
AwardsGoldman Environmental Prize (2003)

Eileen Kampakuta Brown AM (born 1 January 1938) is an Aboriginal elder from Australia. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003[1] together with Eileen Wani Wingfield, for their efforts to stop governmental plans for a nuclear waste dump in South Australia's desert land, and for protection of their land and culture.[2][3]

Brown, Wingfield and other elder women formed the Cooper Pedy Women's Council (Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta) in 1995.[2]

As a child Brown often had to hide from government officials, who had a policy of removing biracial children from their families and sending them to institutions.[4] In 2000 she and Eileen Wani Wingfield published 'Down the Hole,' a children's book based on their experiences of hiding from the authorities.[5]

References

  1. ^ Goldman Environmental Prize: Eileen Kampakuta Brown Archived 4 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 2 December 2007)
  2. ^ a b "Eileen Wani Wingfield and Eileen Kampakuta Brown (1930s-)". The Guardian. 8 March 2005. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Goldman Environmental Foundation". Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  4. ^ Kristine Moruzi; Michelle J Smith; Elizabeth Bullen, eds. (2018). Affect, emotion, and children's literature representation and socialisation in texts for children and young adults. ISBN 9781138244672. OCLC 1015755274.
  5. ^ Edna Tantjingu Williams (2000). Down the hole, up the tree, across the sandhills-- : -- running from the state and Daisy Bates. Jukurrpa Books. ISBN 1864650249. OCLC 49345730.


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