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] 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.
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