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Emily Ticasuk Ivanoff Brown was born in 1904 in [[Unalakleet, Alaska]]. Her name, Ticasuk, means "where the four winds gather their treasures from all parts of the world...the greatest which is knowledge."<ref name=Carson>{{cite web|last=Carson|first=Johanna and Bill|title=Ticasuk Brown 1st Fairbanks school named for Alaska Native|url=http://www.newsminer.com/features/youth/ticasuk-brown-st-fairbanks-school-named-for-alaska-native/article_692d6956-2fef-11e3-a9e5-0019bb30f31a.html|work=Youth|date=8 October 2013 |publisher=Daily News-Miner|accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> Her grandfather was [[Russian people|Russian]], named Sergei Ivanoff, and her grandmother was [[Yupik peoples|Yupik]], named Chikuk. Brown's parents were Stephen Ivanoff and Malquay. She attended elementary school in [[Shaktoolik, Alaska]], which was a village co-founded by her father.<ref name="BatailleLisa2001">{{cite book|author1=Gretchen M. Bataille|author2=Laurie Lisa|title=Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=83LZvjUSPr0C&pg=PA57|date=12 June 2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-203-80104-8|pages=57–58}}</ref> After high school, she became a [[certified teacher]] in [[Oregon]].<ref name=Carson/><ref name="BatailleLisa2001"/> She started teaching in [[Kotzebue, Alaska]]. She moved to [[Washington (state)|Washington]] to study [[nursing]] and got married.<ref name=Carson/>

The couple moved back to Alaska where Brown started teaching, but her husband died two years into their marriage.<ref name=Carson/> She went back to college in 1959,<ref name="BatailleLisa2001"/> obtaining two [[Bachelor of Arts]] at the [[University of Alaska Fairbanks|University of Alaska]] in [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]]. She earned her masters in 1974 with a thesis titled ''Grandfather of Unalakleet''. Her thesis was republished as ''The Roots of Ticasuk: anAn Eskimo Woman's Family Story'', in 1981.<ref name="BatailleLisa2001"/><ref name=UA2>{{cite web|title=Emily Ivanoff Brown|url=http://www.alaska.edu/uajourney/notable-people/nome/emily-ivanoff-brown/|work=Nome|publisher=University of Alaska|accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> Brown created a [[curriculum]] around the [[Inupiaq language]].<ref name=Carson/> The [https://www.alaska.edu/uajourney/notable-people/nome/emily-ivanoff-brown/forward-of-tales-of-ticas/ foreword to her book], ''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo5786079.html Tales of Ticasuk: Eskimo Legends & Stories]'', published by the University of Chicago Press, was written by Professor Jimmy Bedford and provides a comprehensive story of her life and contributions.

She was given a [[Presidential Commission (United States)|Presidential Commission]] by [[Richard Nixon]].<ref name="BatailleLisa2001"/> She worked at the [[University of Alaska Fairbanks]], where she worked on an [[EskimoIñupiaq language]] [[encyclopedia]] until she died in 1982 in [[Fairbanks, Alaska]].<ref name=Carson/> Just before her death, she was set to receive an [[honorary doctorate]] from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.<ref name="BatailleLisa2001"/>

The learning center at the Northwest Community College in [[Nome, Alaska]] is dedicated to her. There is an Emily Ivanoff Ticasuk Brown Award for Human Rights award named after her and which is awarded by the [[National Education Association]] of Alaska.<ref name=NEA1>{{cite web|title=Human Relations and Civil Rights Awards|url=http://www.neaalaska.org/nea/sites/default/files/awards/emilyivanoffcriteria.pdf|work=Awards|publisher=National Education Association of Alaska|accessdate=28 October 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200801/http://www.neaalaska.org/nea/sites/default/files/awards/emilyivanoffcriteria.pdf|archivedate=29 October 2013}}</ref> [https://www.k12northstar.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=1120 Ticasuk Brown Elementary School] was the first school in Fairbanks, Alaska to be named after a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] person. The school opened in September 1987. The name was chosen out of 43 submissions in a quest to name the school.<ref name=Carson/> She was placed in the [[Alaska Women's Hall of Fame]] in 2009.<ref name=AWHF>{{cite web|firstauthor=Pamela|title=Tikasuk “Emily”"Emily" Brown (Ivanoff)|url=http://alaskawomenshalloffame.org/2011/02/28/tikasuk-emily-brown-ivanoff/|work=Hall of Fame|publisher=Alaska Women's Hall of Fame|accessdate=28 October 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029203138/http://alaskawomenshalloffame.org/2011/02/28/tikasuk-emily-brown-ivanoff/|archivedate=29 October 2013}}</ref>

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