Edel Hætta Eriksen
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Edel Hætta Eriksen (17 October 1921 – 13 August 2023) was a Norwegian politician and Northern Saami schoolteacher.


Biography

Edel Hætta Eriksen was born in
Guovdageainnu Municipality Kautokeino (; ; ; ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages include Láhpoluoppal and Máze. The municipality is the largest by a ...
on 17 October 1921, to Klemet Klemetsen Hætta and midwife Berit Karen Olsdatter Erke. In 1949, she married Hagbart Andor Eriksen. She graduated from teaching schools in Nesna and Tromsø, specializing in
duodji Duodji is a traditional cultural Sami people, Sami handicraft. Some examples include Knife, knives, cases, women's bags, wooden cups, and articles of clothing. Duodji items are intended to be primarily functional and were made to be used in an every ...
and Saami, and went on to work as a schoolteacher in Kautokeino from 1949 to 1969, and as headmaster from 1969 to 1977. Hætta Eriksen served as the first director of , from 1977 to 1989. She was a board member of the Norwegian Sami Association from 1968 to 1975, a member of the
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from 1956 to 1963 and from 1974 to 1977, and a member of the
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. She was decorated Knight, First Class of the
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in 1988. Edel Hætta Eriksen died on 13 August 2023, at the age of 101.


Selected works

*''Låkkangirj'ji sámi-ja dárogillii'' (2 volumes 1965/1970) *''Muitalusat ja dáhpáhusat Guovdageainnus'' (4 volumes 1991–1997)


References

1921 births 2023 deaths Norwegian women centenarians Norwegian Sámi politicians Norwegian schoolteachers People from Kautokeino Sámi schoolteachers 20th-century Norwegian women politicians 20th-century Norwegian educators Norwegian women educators 20th-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century women educators {{Norway-politician-stub