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    • Bertha Allen

    Women's rights advocate

    Bertha Allen

    Born

    Bertha Moses


    1934

    Old Crow, Yukon, Canada

    Died7 May 2010 (aged 75–76)
    OccupationActivist

    Bertha Allen (née Moses; 1934 – 7 May 2010) was a Vuntut Gwitchin women's rights and aboriginal rights advocate.[1]

    Early life and education

    Allen was born in Old Crow, Yukon, and raised by her grandparents. At the age of 12, she was sent to a mission school in Aklavik, where she studied for 5 years.[citation needed] She attended Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, formerly known as Grant MacEwan Community College, to take courses in life-skill coaching and leadership.[2]

    Career

    Allen strove to improve health services in the Northwest Territories through 10 years of volunteer work with the Territorial Hospital Insurance Services Board. For 5 years, she served as a volunteer for the Inuvik Medical Transient Centre. In 2001, she became a