The organization was founded on the initiative of Elsa Laula Renberg, who became the first president.
A few years later, the Brurskankens samiske kvindeforening initiated the first All Sami Conference in Trondheim in 1917, organized by Renberg as chair for a work group also composed of among others Ellen Olsen Toven, Anna Renfjell and Ellen Lie.
[2] It was not the first Sami women's organization: in 1906, Elsa Laula Renberg's sister Maria Katarina Laula had founded the Fatmomakke- och Åsele Lappska kvinnoförening, but it had merely been a women's wing of the Lappernes Centralförbund.
[3] Brurskankens Lappkvindeforening died with the death of Elsa Laula Renberg in 1931.
After the dissolution, the Sami women's movement did not organize again until the foundation of the Sáráhkka (1988-2004).