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Bertha Allen
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Bertha Moses
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| Died | 7 May 2010 |
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Bertha Allen (née Moses; 1934 – 7 May 2010) was a Vuntut Gwitchin women's rights and aboriginal rights advocate.
She was a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case and is a Member of the Order of Canada. She was the founding president of the Native Women's Association of the Northwest Territories, as well as serving as president of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women in the Northwest Territories and president of the Native Women's Association of Canada.
A member of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation of Old Crow, Yukon, she married Victor Allen, an Inuvialuit man, and had six children. Allen died of cancer in 2010.
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