She was the recipient of a Presidential Commission and was the first Native American to have a school named after her in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Her name, Ticasuk, means "where the four winds gather their treasures from all parts of the world...the greatest which is knowledge.

She attended elementary school in Shaktoolik, Alaska, which was a village co-founded by her father.

[1] The couple moved back to Alaska where Brown started teaching, but her husband died two years into their marriage.

Her thesis was republished as The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman's Family Story, in 1981.