Norma Kassi

{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image =  | image_size = 150px | name = Norma Kassi | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|4|10}} | birth_place = Aklavik, Northwest Territories | office = MLA for Old Crow | term_start = 1985 | term_end = 1992 | predecessor = Kathie Nukon | successor = Johnny Abel | party = Yukon New Democratic Party | occupation = environmentalist }}

'''Norma Kassi''' (born April 10, 1954) is a native Gwich'in from Yukon Territory, Canada,<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Guide Parlementaire Canadien|author=Canada. Parliament|date=1989|publisher=Gale Canada|issn=0315-6168|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5v3vAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref> and a former member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and former chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/yukonvotes2006/riding/015/ Yukon Votes 2006: Vuntut Gwitchin]. cbc.ca.</ref> She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002,<ref name="goldman">Goldman Environmental Prize: [http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/110 Norma Kassi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204050957/http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/110 |date=2007-12-04 }} (Retrieved on November 29, 2007)</ref> together with Sarah James and Jonathon Solomon. They received the prize for their struggles for protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from plans of oil exploration and drilling. Oil and gas exploration would disturb the life cycle of the Porcupine caribou, which has been the foundation for the Gwich'in culture for 20,000 years.<ref name="goldman"/> In 2010 she was elected as Chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin.

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