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Earth Healing Prayers

By Suzy Chaffee on December 31, 2018

We give thanks for all those who are moved in their lives, to heal and protect the earth, in small ways and in large. Blessings on the composters, the gardeners, the breeders of worms and mushrooms, the soil-builders, those who cleanse the waters and purify the air, all those who clean up

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LORD’S PRAYER Honoring MOTHER EARTH.

By Suzy Chaffee on December 31, 2018

Our Mother who art underfoot and all about, hallowed be thy names. Thy seasons come, thy will be done, within us as around us. Thank you for our daily bread, our water, our air, our lives, and so much beauty; Lead us not into selfish craving and destructions, the hungers

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John Denver Singing and skiing – Dancing with the mountains

By Suzy Chaffee on December 26, 2018

Hail John for expressing how we are ONE when joyfully dancing with the Mts, especially with my fellow freestyle pioneers, and taking better care of Mother Earth like Native Americans. Why he did a soulful Christmas special at a Wyoming rez! We miss you John!

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Global Divestment Movement Celebrates Milestone: 1,000 Institutions With Nearly $8 Trillion in Assets Have Vowed to Ditch Fossil Fuels

By Suzy Chaffee on December 20, 2018
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Rolling Stones Magazine features Earth Guardians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

By Suzy Chaffee on December 7, 2018

Indigenous Climate Activist, Xiuhtezcatl, Seeks Signs of Hope in New ‘Magic’ Video You may know Xiuhtezcatl Martinez as one of the teens suing the U.S. government for failing to take action on the climate crisis. By the age of 14, Xiuhtezcatl — pronounced “shoe-tez-caht” —addressed the United Nations on environmental policy in English, Spanish,

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NOV 18, MT ASHLAND SKI AREA SNOW CEREMONY!

By Suzy Chaffee on November 18, 2018

YOU are dearly invited to join in solidarity with us, (as wherever you are is also blessed) for the “5th Annual SNOW Welcoming Ceremony” on Oregon’s Mt Ashland, 1 to 4pm, at the ski area. Only prayers & (amazing) music at this multicultural gathering giving gratitude for all the gifts of Mother Earth. Enjoy

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HARVARD BRAIN SURGEON’S “PROOF OF HEAVEN” 

By Suzy Chaffee on November 17, 2018

Dr Eben Alexander provided the ultimate mind-blowing “Proof of Heaven.” (Newsweek cover) and the “spirit world is real,” whom the tribes give gratitude to in their snow/raindances…  See details.  http://www.banderasnews.com/1810/edop-suzy-chaffee-proof-of-heaven.htm   It also proves karma – why Pope Francis urged others to also say “sorry” to the Indigenous of the Americas, make amends,

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World Peace Pilgrimage

By Suzy Chaffee on August 25, 2018

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Vallarta Hailed Mother Earth-Madre Tierra on Solstice

By Suzy Chaffee on April 1, 2018

Suzy Chaffee – BanderasNews.com March 23, 2018 Photo courtesy of Pinterest.com Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Mother Earth was royally celebrated on the Solstice by millions around the world, including the hundreds in Puerto Vallarta who gathered next to Los Muertos Pier and, led by joyful Azteca dancers, participated in sweetly regaling

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Riding Free

By Suzy Chaffee on February 22, 2018

See the First Nation Snowboard Team FNST’s “Riding Free” documentary that aired in 50 countries, by Oscar  winning Brit’s Grainmedia.com    Suzy inspired Canadian Olympian Steve Podborski in 2004, to team up with Squamish Aaron Marchant to give their First Nations youth a chance to snowboard at over 15 ski areas across

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Hermann Reitberger – Men’s ballet final, Calgary Olympic Games 1988

By Suzy Chaffee on February 22, 2018

Germany’s Herman Reitberger won men’s Ski Ballet Demo event at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.  NBC and CBC celebrated its 30th Anniversary, which may inspire a rebirth taking the best of the Olympic ballets and these film double ski ballets. 

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Speaking to the Water

By Suzy Chaffee on January 16, 2018



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Will Native American Day Replace Columbus Day?

By Suzy Chaffee on October 22, 2017

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Monday, October 9, was a landmark evolutionary day for America. South Dakota celebrated “Native American Day,” followed by the big-hearted cities of Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Austin, Texas. Our Native American Olympic Team Foundation (NAOTF) salutes these enlightened cities, as well as the states

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SKI BALLET Rebirth: Thanks Mother Earth for Stowe’s Snow Miracle! – videos (ENews)

By Suzy Chaffee on April 23, 2017

Thanks to Mother Earth’s gracious Snow miracle at Vermont’s Stowe Mt, we were able to help rebirth SKI BALLET into a more fun, easy, romantic form for all ages and levels, on April 8,during U.S. Ski Hall of Fame Week (HOF). My FREE clinic was at the urging of ski

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Thanks, Mother Earth, for Stowe’s Epic Snow Miracle

By Suzy Chaffee on April 23, 2017

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Since we can only ski or snowboard on Mexico’s volcanoes with a helicopter, and many snowbirds catch the spring skiing when they fly North, some of us miss regular skiing and snowboarding in the U.S. and South America, as well as stories about them.

Here is an amazing miracle I witnessed in the U.S. last week to show you the power of giving gratitude to Mother Earth. Marie Mercedes Sanchez, the UN Sustainability officer from Nicaragua asked us to spread these stories about the Snowdance Phenomena “to wake up communities to live in more harmony with Mother Earth to help solve this Climate crisis.”

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Equinox Love Fest in PV Hopes to Heal Trump’s Heart

By Suzy Chaffee on March 30, 2017

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Everyone is invited to our Equinox Love Fest at 5:00 pm Tuesday, March 21, on Los Muertos Pier in Puerto Vallarta. Bring flower(s) to this multi-cultural fun Oceandance. A stunning traditional Azteca-Huichol ceremony will follow at 6:00 pm next to the pier.

In solidarity with the Equinox ceremonies around the world sending love to Mother Earth’s heart to heal Her, our intention is to send those global tsunamis of Love also to President Trump to heal his heart. Then he may fully experience the ecstasy of giving love to all Americans, Mexicans, Humanity and Mother Earth. This will help President Trump and other leaders to see the God in EVERYONE and all life forms, so he naturally wants to do right actions in harmony with Mother Earth for instead of a few, the good of ALL, so he is well-loved by many more. And that includes protecting the water and air of ALL Americans. Love is the most powerful energy in the universe, so the Force is with us!

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The Many Adorable Kids Marching Worldwide

By Suzy Chaffee on January 30, 2017

Hundreds of thousands of people joined women’s marches across the country and the world on Saturday, the first full day of President Trump’s term. Men and women marched for any number of issues, from racial equality to sexism, from climate change to ACA. But there were also kids who showed

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How Mexico, N. America Can Trigger an Economic Boom

By Suzy Chaffee on January 18, 2017

Baja’s Todos Santos 1st World Women’s Awakening Summit speakers Lynn Wedekind, a vibrational healer, me, and founder Angelica Robinson, beaming after whales spouted on my birthday – launch day! Suzy ‘Stevia’ Chaffee – BanderasNews.com January 11, 2017 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – In December, the inaugural International Women’s Awakening Summit in

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How to Make Exercise Joyful – Skier Suzy Chaffee dances to her own fitness drummer

By Suzy Chaffee on January 17, 2017

Photo:Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee is in the best shape of her life as a baby boomer. — IAN ALLEN by Suzy Chaffee, AARP The Magazine, August/September 2015 My baby boomer body is in the best shape it’s ever been. I’m not as strong as I was when I downhill raced

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Standing Rock: A Change of Heart

By Suzy Chaffee on December 7, 2016

by Charles Eisenstein I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath. I would like to explain why this advice is not only spiritually sound, but politically astute as

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Fishermen, Rock Star Mobilize World Ocean Emergency

By Suzy Chaffee on December 7, 2016

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – In October the World Wildlife Fund released a troubling report on CNN, that two thirds of the world’s marine and wildlife could be gone by 2020, that’s just 3 years from now! And it is mainly from rising air and ocean temperatures and over farming, logging

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UN Team Working to Restore Coral in Banderas Bay

By Suzy Chaffee on September 16, 2016

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico – On August 30, an “unprecedented breakthrough” in restoring the rapidly disappearing coral from our warming oceans was confirmed at Puerto Vallarta’s Technological Institute (IT) in Nayarit. It is thanks to the team of UN consultant Leonard Sonnenschein, president of the World Aquarium and its Conservation for the Oceans Foundation.

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UN Zika Solution to Protect RIO Olympians and Children

By Suzy Chaffee on September 8, 2016

Following RIO’s “awesome” first Green Opening Ceremonies, here is a chance to be Olympic Heroes while helping protect Olympians and everyone, especially the brains of children, from the devastating Zika Mosquito Virus.

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Good Luck Ashton Locklear! Lumbee Olympic Gymnastics Hopeful

By Suzy Chaffee on September 7, 2016

Ashton Locklear, 18, is one of America’s leading gymnasts. She won national and international titles in uneven bars in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/07/08/good-luck-ashton-locklear-lumbee-olympic-gymnastics-hopeful-165073

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Be an Olympic Hero: Support Conservation of Oceans

By Suzy Chaffee on September 6, 2016

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – The greatest applause during the Olympic’s “spectacular” Green Opening Ceremony in Rio was for regenerating Mother Earth and celebrating our beautiful diversity, from the Refugee Teams, to the female Arab Olympians, the “greatest gymnast ever” Simon Biles, and Brazil’s City of God Olympians, to the strutting Gisele Bundschen.

Rio’s murky waters and Zika mosquito challenges are a preview of coming attractions unless as an Olympic Family, like the musicians and actors, we boldly mobilize to curb climate change. Their warmer waters, combined with their sewer challenges, which they could not fully afford to fix despite spending 1/10 of London’s Opening, resulted in their infections waters.

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Olympian Suzy "Chapstick" Chaffee, NACAF's Co-founder and Co-chairman, gives a ride to Navajo Cissy Esiddy at Telluride, CO, the pioneering ski resort.


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Torrance "Blue Feather" Miller, N.Ute dance-skier, one of the stars of Utah Olympic Opening, dancing to 4 tribal victories in Aspen's Winterskol Parade. He asked his teacher, Loya Arrum Cesspooch, "Why do they treat us almost like celebrities in Colorado. "Because you are valuable Utes,"replied Loya, a descendent of Chief Colorow who lived near Aspen.

Hight, Suzy and Kerwin Tom of Ute Mt Tribe in Telluride Skiing - The Bridge to Unity! Broderick
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Fancy Dancer, Evan Grant, dazzles the crowd at the Telluride event.


Southern Ute Co-Founder, Alden Naranjo, at memorial for brother Eugene who started unity bridge.


PRO SNOWBOARDER JEREMY JONES RECEIVES WHITE HOUSE “CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE” AWARD


Danielle Pelham (U.S. Chickasaw Tribe) winning the 2009 Taekwondo World Championships. Including her in the London Olympics could be a healing for humanity and help safeguard a phenomenal Games and their future.


13 yr old Olympic Hopeful Mariah Cooper (Lac Courte Oreille-Oneida), Jr Miss Honor the Earth Princess, prayer-signing her love for Mother Earth to open event for Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson, a Father of Earth Day.

Native Americans who inspired some of this progress L to R - Gene Tagaban (Tlingit-Cherokee), Mariah Cooper, (Lac Courte Oreilles-Oneida) Olympic Hopeful, Rollingbears Quintana (Lakota-Azteca)
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75 OLYMPIC MEDALISTS AND OTHER WINTER SPORTS ATHLETES URGE OBAMA ACTION ON CLIMATE, CLEAN ENERGY

Olympic skier "Suzy Chapstick" Chaffee joyfully unveiling affordable solutions right under our noses to cut global warming, fires and cancer almost in half.  Read more...

Photo courtesy Telluride SkiCo, a pioneer of her Native Ski Programs


Ute Mt youth welcomed home to Telluride's Mt Village with Ute sculpture to ski, snowboard and celebrate by Telski and town leaders: L-R Rabbi Michael Saftler, Olympian Suzy Chaffee, Kit Collins (cowboy hat) and Mayor David Glynn. Atop, Timber Manning holds baby eagle feather. Credit: Karen Goldman.


"Giving Native youth sports opportunities is the No. 1 priority of Indian Country,"
Tex Hall, former President of the National Congress of American Indians, NAOTF co-chair 2000-2001, Chairman of the Affiliated Tribes of N.D., tried out for the Denver Nuggets.

What a surprise as I thought Americans and Canadians lost completely their links with the ancient roots, knowledge and traditions of the original inhabitants, so thanks for sharing and all your efforts. --Eduardo de la Barrera, Latin American

NAOTF’s inspiring work is helping bring racial harmony to America.”       -- President Bill Clinton

“As co-founder and Vice Chair of the U.S. House of Representative’s Native American Caucus (60 members), congratulations on your Native American Millennial Ski events. It’s heartening to know that there are groups like yours across America that are working to better the lives of their Indian friends and neighbors."     --Patrick Kennedy, Member of Congress 

"Congratulations on all the efforts of Native American Olympic Team Foundation. All of us at Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation hope that the success of our "Future Ute Olympians Program" (taught by Billy's Olympic coaches) will stimulate other resorts and towns to host Native American youth for ski and snowboarding experiences. If we may be of further help in spreading the word, please let us know." --Chris Diamond, President, and Billy Kidd, Director of Skiing
2015 NAOTF & Suzy Chaffee
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