Kukdookaa Terri Brown, of the Native Women's Association of Canada, speaks on the 500 stolen aboriginal women, colonialism and genocide.
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Kukdookaa Terri Brown is from the Taltan Nation of Northern British Columbia. She grew up on a remote reservation and was taken to residential school in Whitehorse at the age of 10. Her strong cultural and spiritual identity has given her the motivation and strength to survive the many hardships that aboriginal women face. She was greatly influenced by her late mother, Mrs. Jean Brown. Terri Brown's political activism spans three decades. She was the first aboriginal president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and the current president of the Native Women's Association of Canada. She is mother of three children.
She spoke in February at the University of Toronto, as part of the Women and War speakers series.