Eileen Kampakuta Brown

{{short description|Australian aboriginal elder and activist}}

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| awards = Goldman Environmental Prize (2003)

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Eileen Kampakuta Brown {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AM}} (born 1 January 1938) is an Aboriginal elder from Australia. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003Goldman Environmental Prize: [http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/86 Eileen Kampakuta Brown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204051439/http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/86 |date=4 December 2007 }} (Retrieved on 2 December 2007) 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/08/news3|title=Eileen Wani Wingfield and Eileen Kampakuta Brown (1930s-)|date=2005-03-08|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-03-20}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/eileen-kampakuta-brown-eileen-wani-wingfield/|title=Goldman Environmental Foundation|access-date=2018-03-20|language=en-US}}

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

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.{{Cite book|title=Affect, emotion, and children's literature representation and socialisation in texts for children and young adults|year=2018 |editor=Kristine Moruzi|editor2=Michelle J Smith|editor3=Elizabeth Bullen|isbn=9781138244672|oclc=1015755274}} In 2000 she and Eileen Wani Wingfield published 'Down the Hole, a children's book based on their experiences of hiding from the authorities.{{Cite book|title=Down the hole, up the tree, across the sandhills-- : -- running from the state and Daisy Bates|author=Edna Tantjingu Williams|date=2000|publisher=Jukurrpa Books|isbn=1864650249|oclc=49345730}}

Brown was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2003 Australia Day Honours for "service to the community through the preservation, revival and teaching of traditional Anangu Aboriginal culture and as an advocate for indigenous communities in Central Australia".{{Cite web |title=Mrs Eileen Kampakuta BROWN |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1042160 |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}