Grafton Njootli (1947 – 1999)
	
Grafton Njootli was the MLA representing Old Crow for the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party from 1978 to 1982. He was the first Indigenous person elected to the Yukon legislature and was Minister of Health and Human Resources in Chris Pearson’s government.((“Grafton Njootli.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Njootli)) 

Njootli resigned from the chamber in 1979 while the RCMP investigated him for forgery and assault. He was re-elected in the next election.((Ryan Timothy Sikkes, “Holding on while letting go: education, politics, and Yukon public schools, 1960 – 2003.” 2019. UBC Theses and Dissertations, Open Collections, 2021 website: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0378036)) He was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House in October 1980 and served until the legislature dissolved in 1982.((“Grafton Njootli.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Njootli)) He was forced to resign again when he breached his probation.((Ryan Timothy Sikkes, “Holding on while letting go: education, politics, and Yukon public schools, 1960 – 2003.” 2019. UBC Theses and Dissertations, Open Collections, 2021 website: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0378036)) 

Grafton Njootli died in a boating accident on the Porcupine River in 1999.((“Grafton Njootli.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Njootli))