Norma Kassi

Norma Kassi
MLA for Old Crow
In office 1985–1992
Preceded by	Kathie Nukon
Succeeded by	Johnny Abel
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Political party	Yukon New Democratic Party
Occupation	environmentalist

Norma Kassi is a native Gwich'in from Yukon Territory, Canada, and a former member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly and current chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation .^[1] She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002,^[2] 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 20000 years.^[2]In 2010 she was elected as Chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin.

References

1. ^ Yukon Votes 2006: Vuntut Gwitchin. cbc.ca.
2. ^ ^{a b} Goldman Environmental Prize: Norma Kassi (Retrieved on November 29, 2007)

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Name	Kassi, Norma
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