# Norma Kassi
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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Norma Kassi
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|4|10}}
| birth_place = [Aklavik](/source/Aklavik), [Northwest Territories](/source/Northwest_Territories)
| office = [MLA](/source/Yukon_Legislative_Assembly) for [Old Crow](/source/Vuntut_Gwitchin_(electoral_district))
| term_start = 1985
| term_end = 1992
| predecessor = [Kathie Nukon](/source/Kathie_Nukon)
| successor = [Johnny Abel](/source/Johnny_Abel)
| party = [Yukon New Democratic Party](/source/Yukon_New_Democratic_Party)
| occupation = environmentalist
}}
'''Norma Kassi''' (born April 10, 1954) is a native [Gwich'in](/source/Gwich'in_people) from [Yukon Territory](/source/Yukon_Territory), [Canada](/source/Canada),[{{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}}] and a former member of the [Yukon Legislative Assembly](/source/Yukon_Legislative_Assembly) and former chief of the [Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation](/source/Vuntut_Gwitchin_First_Nation).[[http://www.cbc.ca/yukonvotes2006/riding/015/ Yukon Votes 2006: Vuntut Gwitchin]. [cbc.ca](/source/cbc.ca).] She was awarded the [Goldman Environmental Prize](/source/Goldman_Environmental_Prize) in 2002,[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)] together with [Sarah James](/source/Sarah_James) and [Jonathon Solomon](/source/Jonathon_Solomon). They received the prize for their struggles for protection of the [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge](/source/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](/source/Porcupine_caribou), which has been the foundation for the Gwich'in culture for 20,000 years.