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Events and Announcements

As requested by the Tobacco Evaluator Alliance (TEA) and its steering committee, GrEEN TEA, monthly sessions are being offered on the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30-11:30AM for projects to ask questions about brief and final evaluation reports. Drop in for as many of these sessions as you'd like, and learn from different FER writers and scorers each month. Register in advance for these meetings:

Mar 5 - Jul 2, 2025 @ 10:30am - 11:30am
Learn more and register here

Teen Advisory Group. Del Norte TAG Family Night. May 14, 2025 5:30PM - 8:00PM. Elk Valley Rancheria. 2332 Howland Hill Rd. Crescent City, CA 95531. Come and join us for fun and dinner! Learn more about what TAG does all year! RSVP at 707-825-5070 or amanda.colegrove@uihs.org. Images of colorful dinosaurs and plants.

Del Norte TAG Family Night

April 14, 2025
RSVP by calling (707) 825 - 5070 or by emailing Amanda Colegrove

13th Inter-Tribal Environmental Youth Campout. Fort Bragg, CA. June 24 - 27. 2025. Tuesday - Friday. Evironmental education. Cultural activities. Recreational games. Traditional foods. for information: Potter Valley Tribe 707.462.1213. Black and white illustration of a Native American person wearing a grass skirt and carrying a patterned container on their back with a walking stick in their hand. They're on the shore looking out at the water. Open Invitation to All Interested Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma Tribes. The 13th Inter-Tribal Environmental Youth Campout will be held Tuesday through Friday, June 24 - 27, 2025 at Noyo-bida Ranch in beautiful Fort Bragg, California. The event provides a safe atmosphere for native youth and is intended to be inclusive of the larger tribal community. All tribes are invited to sponsor native youth and/or families to participate and make the event a success! Tribal youth will participate in a combination of workshops and presentations including topics on the environment, culture, health and wellness, and education. Fun team-building games and activities will be mixed in throughout the week and provide a great opportunity for native youth to make connections and build relationships. For Tribes interested in signing up for the event or to obtain more Information, please contact Potter Valley Tribe at 707-462-1213 or via email at waterresources@pottervalleytribe.com or pvtepatech@pottervalleytribe.com. Tribal representatives who would like to participate, provide a workshop or coordinate an activity are invited to attend the planning meetings via Zoom, or at the Potter Valley Tribal Office located at 2251 South State Street, Ukiah CA (or other locations to be announced). We appreciate your support and look forward to hearing from you. Regards, The MLSTEP Inter-Tribal Environmental Youth Campout Planning Team

InterTribal Environmental Youth Campout

June 24 - 27, 2025
RSVP by calling (707) 462 - 1231 or by emailing waterresources@pottervalleytribe.com or pvtepatech@pottervalleytribe.com

Teen Advisory Group. Del Norte TAG Family Night. May 14, 2025 5:30PM - 8:00PM. Elk Valley Rancheria. 2332 Howland Hill Rd. Crescent City, CA 95531. Come and join us for fun and dinner! Learn more about what TAG does all year! RSVP at 707-825-5070 or amanda.colegrove@uihs.org. Images of colorful dinosaurs and plants.

OUT: World No Tobacco Day

June 5, 2025
Registration Open: OABT-LA's World No Tobacco Day Virtual Event

Join OUT Against Big Tobacco Los Angeles on June 5th from 9:30am - 12:30pm PDT via Zoom for our World No Tobacco Day virtual event serving tobacco prevention realness for LGBTQ+ community and allies! For more information and registration details, click this link or scan the QR code in the flyer. We hope to see you there!

Registration for the California Youth Advocacy Network’s (CYAN) 2025 Statewide Youth Advocacy Conference is open. This conference is designed to create a space for youth and adult partners to learn how to advocate for local policy and system change. This unique learning opportunity trains youth on current commercial smoke/tobacco-free policy initiatives and utilizes Live Action Roleplay activities for youth to practice new learned advocacy skills. This year’s event will be held in Santa Cruz County at the Happy Valley Conference Center on Monday, July 14 to Thursday, July 17, 2025.

News

Big Tobacco Targeting of Tribes

For decades, the commercial tobacco industry targeted American Indians/American Natives with marketing and pricing tactics that resulted in disproportionate rates of tobacco-related chronic disease in these populations. Today e-cigarette companies such as Juul Labs are continuing to target Tribes – particularly Tribal youth – with products that have been associated with vaping-related lung injuries, addiction, and death.

The Public Health Law Center, in partnership with the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiological Center, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., has just released a new publication that provides an overview of the deceptive ways the tobacco and e-cigarette industries have marketed their products to Tribes. The resource includes a sample resolution for Tribes on electronic smoking devices and commercial tobacco industry sponsorships. This resolution is just one tool that Tribes could consider adapting and adopting to address tobacco industry targeting of Tribal Nations with products that could have adverse impact on the health of their people.

Read Addressing Tobacco Industry Targeting of Tribes (2021)