She is professor emerita of history at the University of Winnipeg and was a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for Aboriginal Peoples in an Urban and Regional Context.
[1] Her great-grandmother Elizabeth Young was the inspiration for her book "Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country: Memories of a Mother and Son.
[4] Two years later, she simultaneously worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba for graduate thesis and dissertation service and consultation.
[7] In the following years, Brown and fellow University of Winnipeg professor Susan Gray published a collection of essays on Ojibwe Studies.
[11] The following is a selected list of publications by Brown:[12] The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 (1988).