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more years.
Men with high concentrations of abnormally shaped
sperm were seven times as likely to have used cocaine
for five years or more and two years or longer ago, and
four times as likely to have used it once a month or
more.
The researchers said male infertility plays some role in
almost two-thirds of couples who have trouble conceiving.
Tribal Chairman Mark Mercier recently took the time
to donate a $500.00 check to the Grand Ronde Public
Library on behalf of the Grand Ronde Tribal Council.
"The Parade To
Celebrate Our Freedom"
Over Twice the Stroke Risk
Women smokers are more than twice as likely as other
women to suffer a disabling or fatal stroke, according to '
a study conducted by Harvard Medical School and
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The eight year study followed 118,539 women between
the ages of 30 and 55.
Women who smoked up to 14 cigarettes a day were 2.2
times more likely to have a stroke than non-smoking
women; those who smoked 25 or more cigarettes a day
were 3.7 times more likely to be stroke victims.
The increased stroke risk was not limited to women
with high blood pressure or other stroke risks; all
women smokers had an increased risk, according to the
study's director, Dr. Graham Colditz. "This study makes
a fairly clear message for smokers," he said.
A stroke results when the blood flow through an artery
supplying blood to the brain is blocked, or when a
weakened blood vessel in the brain bursts.
The exact mechanism by which smoking increases
stroke risk is not yet understood.
- Courtesy of Hope Health Letter
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This year's parade theme for Willamina's Old
Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration was "The Parade
To Celebrate Our Freedom." Tribal youth Adam Leno,
a fourth grade student from Grand Ronde, was the
Grand Prize winner of a contest to determine this
theme. Accordin to the celebration's program guide
Adam's entry "was original and well thought out."
The parade committee would like to thank all the
students who participated in this year's contest. Your
help was greatly appreciated.
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Carmen Standing Bear is the Social Services' new
department receptionist (Photograph by Ivanetta Cook).
Adam Leno
Dean Christ for Indian
Organizer of the Year
The American Indian Movement has nominated Dean
Christ, Founder and Spokesman for Stop Treaty Abuse
of Minocqua, Wisconsin as "Indian Organizer of the
Year." '
Racist propaganda developed by Dean Christ and his
followers was displayed at boat landings throughout
Northern Wisconsin by drunken sign-carrying members
of STA. Stop Treaty Abuse members referred to Indian
People as "Timber Niggers," and called on its member
ship to "Spear a pregnant Indian woman" and save two
walleyes.
Dean Christs total-scholastic retardation about treaties
made between Sovereign Indian Nations and a Colonial
government that occupied our lands when these treaties
were signed, allowed Stop Treaty Abuse membership to
conduct rock-throwing attacks against spear fishermen
and their families, spitting on Indian women and
children.
Dean Christ's total ignorance about Indian culture,
tradition and the true history of Indian America, as well
as his connection with other white supremacist hate
groups and his praise Ku Klux Klan philosophy, has
done more to promote solidarity between Indian
Nations and educate the non-Indian community about
treaty rights than George Armstrong Custer, John
Wayne and Ronald Reagan all together.
- Courtesy of The Lakota Times