Sarah Agnes James (born 1946) is a native Neets’aii Gwich’in from Arctic Village, Alaska, and a board member of the International Indian Treaty Council. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002, together with Jonathon Solomon and Norma Kassi. They received the prize for their efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from plans of oil exploration and drilling. Oil and gas exploration would disturb the life cycle of the Porcupine caribou, which has been a foundation for the Gwich’in culture since approximately 18,000 BC.
The EPC organization has had tangible and long-lasting successes in preserving wild salmon habitat, preserving and revitalizing the Eyak language and in spreading awareness and education to thousands of people through various programs, communications and activities about the sensitive and threatened wild salmon way of life in the Copper River Delta and Prince William Sound watersheds of Alaska. EPC, a Native-led organization, has utilized its strategic organizing abilities over the last three (3) decades and helped to permanently protect one million acres of rainforest, halt numerous irreversible and destructive development projects and preserve the ancestral Eyak homelands in the Copper River Delta region.
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