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

[1][2] Edel Hætta Eriksen was born in Guovdageainnu Municipality on 17 October 1921, to Klemet Klemetsen Hætta and midwife Berit Karen Olsdatter Erke.

[3] She graduated from teaching schools in Nesna and Tromsø, specializing in duodji and Saami, and went on to work as a schoolteacher in Kautokeino from 1949 to 1969, and as headmaster from 1969 to 1977.

[4] Hætta Eriksen served as the first director of Samisk utdanningsråd [no], from 1977 to 1989.

[3][4] Edel Hætta Eriksen died on 13 August 2023, at the age of 101.