12 Facts About Ticasuk Brown

Ticasuk Brown was an Inupiaq educator, poet and writer.

Ticasuk Brown was the recipient of a Presidential Commission and was the first Native American to have a school named after her in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Emily Ticasuk Ivanoff Brown was born in 1904 in Unalakleet, Alaska.

Ticasuk Brown attended elementary school in Shaktoolik, Alaska, which was a village co-founded by her father.

Ticasuk Brown moved to Washington to study nursing and got married.

The couple moved back to Alaska where Brown started teaching, but her husband died two years into their marriage.

Ticasuk Brown went back to college in 1959, obtaining two Bachelor of Arts at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

Ticasuk Brown earned her masters in 1974 with a thesis titled Grandfather of Unalakleet.

Ticasuk Brown's thesis was republished as The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman's Family Story, in 1981.

Ticasuk Brown was given a Presidential Commission by Richard Nixon.

Ticasuk Brown worked at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she worked on an Inupiaq language encyclopedia until she died in 1982 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Ticasuk Brown was placed in the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.