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10 ways smoking ruins your looks by damaging your skin, teeth and hair Bags under your eyes If you smoke, you’re four times as likely as a nonsmoker to report feeling unrested after a night’s sleep. Nightly nicotine withdrawal could cause you to toss and turn. Psoriasis If you smoke, your risk for scaly skin conditions increases. If you puff a pack day for 10 years or less, psoriasis risk goes up 20 percent, 11-20 years and your risk is 60 percent higher. Icky teeth on average. Smoking hampers the blood supply that keeps skin tissue looking supple and healthy. Yellow fingers The nicotine in cigarette smoke not only can make your teeth brown, but it also is notorious for staining your fingers and nails as well. Premature aging and wrinkles Smoking accelerates aging, so smok ers look 1.4 years older than nonsmokers, Skin cancer Smoking puts you at greater risk for all kinds of dental problems, including oral cancer and gum disease. Smokers are up to six times more likely than non- smokers to develop gum disease, which can lead to tooth loss. Smoking is a leading cause of can cer, including lung, throat, mouth and esophageal. It also increases your risk of skin cancer. Smokers are three times more likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma, the second most common type of skin cancer. Natural glow is gone Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide, which displaces the oxygen in your skin, and nicotine, which reduces blood flow and leaves skin dry and dis colored. Cigarette smoking also depletes many nutrients, including vitamin C, which helps protect skin and repair damage. Thinner hair Toxic chemicals in smoke can dam age the DNA in hair follicles and gener ate cell-damaging free radicals as well. Smokers have thinner hair that tends to go gray sooner than nonsmokers’ hair does. It’s the nicotine in cigarettes that can stain teeth. Tooth loss Tasha Mason Tobacco Prevention 541-444-9659/800-648-0449, ext. 1659 tasham@ctis.nsn.us Oregon Quit Line 800-QUIT-NOW Scarring v. The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon Nicotine causes vasoconstrictions, a narrowing of the blood vessels that can limit oxygen-rich blood flow to the tiny vessels in the face or other parts of the body. Book events for Charles Wilkinson and members of the Siletz Tribal Council Open to the Public Organization • How to use mail order pharmacy • • days before you need your refills. This allows us time to contact your provider, • • if necessary, and for mailing. • March 5 Newport, Ore. Oregon State University Spring Creek Project March 31 Corvallis, Ore. University of Wyoming April 14 Laramie, Wyo. Michigan State University April 18 Michigan UCLA TBA California National Museum of the American Indian TBA Washington, D.C. TBA Eugene, Ore. • Call 800-648-0449 * • Enter 1624 as soon as the clinic’s message begins - you’ll be transferred to * the refill line. • • Or, call the refill line direct - 541 -444-9624. e Location Nye Beach Writers on the Edge Group How to order your refills after hours and on weekends: Please call 7-10 • • Date University of Oregon T rading • I .egal Notice AT TH E Important information about the $3.4 billion Indian Trust Settlement ---------------------------------------- — For current or former ilM account holders. Owners of land held in trust or restricted status, or their heirs A Gathering of Native American Businesses & Tribal Enterprises There is a proposed Settlement in Cobell v. Salazar. a class action lawsuit about individual Indian land held in trust by the federal DATE: April 20-21, 2011 LOCATION: Spirit Mountain Casino Grand Ronde, OR Artist Credit Amanda Wnght (Klamath-Modoc-yahooskin) government. This notice is just a summary. For details, call the toll free number or visit the website listed below The lawsuit claims that the federal government violated its duties by (a) mismanaging trust funds/assets, (b) improperly accounting for those funds, and (c) mismanaging trust land/assets. The trust funds include money collected from farming and grazing leases, timber sales, mining, and oil and gas production from land owned by "Circling Back and Going Forward Celebrating 20 years of Indianpreneurship®*' yourself, you should get a detailed www.IndianTrust.com or by calling 1 -8(X)-96I -6109. We have much to celebrate about our past and much to tab about for our future Like the hrstonc gatherings that occurred here and r many places among the traders of thrs regen Trading at the River « a place where connections are made busrness-tobusiness tribe to-tribe and from past to present • • • at Up to $60 million to fund scholarships to improve access to higher education for Indian youth. • A government commitment to reform the Indian trust management and accounting system. • Trust Administration Class Members will get at least $500. • If you own a small parcel of land with many other people, the federal government may ask you to sell it. You will be offered fair market value If you sell your land it will be returned to tnbal control. There are two groups or "Classes" in the Settlement eligible for • What are my other right»? Had an open individual Indian Money account ("IIM") anytime between October 25. 1994 and September 30. 2009, and • If you wish to keep your nght to sue the federal government about the claims in this Settlement, you must exclude yourself by April 20,2011 • If you stay in the Settlement you can object to or comment on it by April 20. 2011 The detailed notice explains how to exclude yourself or object/comment. • The account had at least one cash transaction. • Includes estates of account holders who died as of September .30, 2009, if the IIM account was still open on that date Trust Administration Class Members ♦ Had an IIM account recorded in currently available data in federal government systems any time from approximately 19X5 to September 30, 2009, or • Owned trust land or land in restricted status as of September 30. 2009. CLARA PRATTE (invited) National Director. Office of Native American Affairs US Small Business Administration • Includes estates of landowners who died as of September 30. 200*1 where the trust interests were in probate as of that dale This means you have asked a court to transfer ownership of the deceased landowner’s property. , An individual may be included in one or both Classes www onaoen.org Calibrating 20 years of IndianproneurshlpG For more Information: i If you believe you are a member of either Class and are not receiving IIM account statements, you will need to call the toll-free number or visit the website to register. Historical Accounting Class Members Featured Speakers President & Creative Director, AD PRO Former Tnbal Chair, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation President, American Indian Chamber of Commerce of CA notice payment. Each Class includes individual IlM account holders or owners of land held in trust or restricted status who were alive on September 30. 2009. intensive Buaineaa Development Conference with community discussions workshops, symposiums and celebrations A Trading at the River marhetplace at ideas, products and services the famous traditional gathering of Indianpreneurs A gathering of emerging and eatabliahed Native CDF fa convened by the newly established Pacific Northwest Native Capital Development Peer Group which wM explore ways of generating new forms of capital to support Native entrepeneurship and tribaMndhndual jomf ventures The kick off for Innovation» in IndianpreneurahipK 2012 - a biennial business plan competition and business showcase A Founder* recognition luncheon that wM highfcght the last 20 years of tribal economic development A Buaineaa Alliance reception gathering the region s Native businesses and chambers of commerce TRACY STANHOFF • • Histoneal Accounting Class Members will each get $1.000. Can I get money The 9th annual Trading at the River conference will include • A SI .9 billion fund to buy small interests in trust or restricted land owned by many people. How much can I get’ If you are included in the Settlement, your rights will be affected. To object to the Settlement, to comment on it. or to exclude 2011 marks the 9th year of Trading at the River Th»» n one is wery special We will gather on the banks of the Yamhrti River at Grand Ronde Oregon where ONABEN was bom two decades ago • ♦ American Indians/Alaska Natives. Trading at the River, Acrylic on Canvas. VrtT (November 2010) * What do*s fhe Settlement provide’ ♦ A S1.5 billion fund to pay those included in the Classes. The U.S District Court for the District of Columbia will hold a heanng on June 20. 2011, to consider whether to approve the Settlement. It will also consider a request for attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses in the amount of $99.9 million j However. Class Counsel has fee agreements that would pay them 14 75% of the funds created for the Classes, which could result in an award of $223 million The Court j may award more or less than these amounts based on controlling law If approved, these payments and related costs will come out of the Settlement funds available for payment to Class Members I l| If you wish, you or your own lawyer may ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost For more information, call or go to the website shown below or write to Indian Trust Settlement, PO Box 9577, Dublin. OH 4.3017-4X77. 1-800-961-6109 March 2011 j I www.lndianTrust.com • Siletz News • 17
