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World Hunger Solutions for RIO+20 Inspired by Athletes, First Ladies, UN, Siberia, Canada, Austria, Italy, Tribes

By Suzy Chaffee on March 16, 2012

During February’s U.S. Super Bowl, the NFL hosted a “Kick Hunger Challenge” to assist food banks in every NFL city. That got many Americans like me inspired and asking, “Can we realistically kick hunger here?”

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Please Help U.S. Ski Areas by Including Mother Earth on Valentine’s Day

By Suzy Chaffee on February 16, 2012

The buzz at the SnowSports Industries Show ending January 31 in Denver was about the Native American snowdance phenomena that restored snow to the Ski Meccas of Colorado, Utah and California in January. They also said, “we need more snowdances.” Some Native Elders who led them say that our giving Mother Earth gratitude for these snowblessings, whether large of small, and including Her in our hearts, especially on Valentine’s Day, can do wonders to inspire more snowfalls.

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ELDERS’ 15 GREEN MANDATES for RIO+20

By Suzy Chaffee on January 16, 2012
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Snowdances at U.S. Ski Areas – Documentation of Snow Blessings

By Suzy Chaffee on January 16, 2012

Three days of blue skies and balmy temperatures melted the offering—but not for long. Vail
reported six inches amid whiteout conditions Jan. 11. Another 10 inches arrived Monday. The
forecast this week projects more snow.

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Puerto Vallarta’s UN Ocean Ceremony Launch Smoothing 2012 Shift

By Suzy Chaffee on December 16, 2011

Given the amazing results of many Tribes of the Americas along with groups of diverse cultures performing New Year’s ceremonies to heal the oceans, it appears that our Earth Family has begun to fulfill the prophesy of what the tribes call “The Purification.” This unprecedented solidarity, inspired by the magnificent Azteca ceremonial dances in Puerto Vallarta (PV) Mexico, means Mother Earth won’t have to rebalance Herself so drastically, which spells a smoother ride for us around 2012! Tsunamis of gratitude to all those who sent prayers enhancing this ongoing global shift.

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Vail’s Snowdance Miracle

By Suzy Chaffee on December 16, 2011

Vail’s Snowdance Miracle

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Decision Time: Billions to Nuclear vs. Renewable Energy for U.S. and Colorado

By Suzy Chaffee on November 16, 2011

Here are some mind-blowing latest numbers and scientific and spiritual breakthroughs and to help determine which energy sources are authentically cost-effective, clean, and safe, to wisely merit investing our hard earned billions. Both are landmark decisions since they take us down paths that affect tens of thousands of generations of children. Therefore it is a moral imperative to choose wisely.

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Indigenous Elders Input Key to Restoring Earth at UN’s RIO+20

By Suzy Chaffee on November 16, 2011

On November 1, our Native American Olympic Team Foundation (NAOTF) submitted to the UN its recommendations, including wisdom of Indigenous Elders, for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference, June 21-22. This marks 20 years after the first UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and never in history has there been such a need to work in unity to restore Earth.

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Mountain Rider’s Alliance, Skilogik Partner on Custom Skis

By Suzy Chaffee on October 16, 2011

Mountain Rider’s Alliance Announces Limited Edition Custom Ski Sale
Partnership with Skilogik offers 500 limited edition MRA custom graphic skis available across entire product line

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Hail to First Lady Betty Ford, Earth Hero! (Along with the Tribes of the Americas, Carl Jung, and AA)

By Suzy Chaffee on July 16, 2011

I didn’t realize until our dear First Lady Betty Ford passed on this month, what an incomparable gift she has given Mother Earth and all Her children. Through Betty’s powerful example of taking her addiction to alcohol and (prescription) drugs out of the closet, educating the public, which diminished the stigma, and founding the Betty Ford Clinic, her gift goes way beyond helping transform the tortured lives of generations of Americans and World Citizens into fulfilling ones. Though sadly some, like pop star Amy Winehouse, could not be reached in time.

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Miracle at Los Alamos, Thanks to World Prayers,including on US and UK’s “Holy Mountains.” Could They Protect London’s 2012 Olympics?

By Suzy Chaffee on July 16, 2011

“A smattering of summer rain boosted firefighters battling the massive forest fire near Los Alamos nuclear reactor.” Other News sources said the blaze came 50 ft from the Laboratory that stores America’s largest supply of nuclear weapons, along with 30,000 drums of plutonium-contaminated waste stored above ground under fabric tarps, not far from mini fires breaking out within the complex. (Catching fire would have released a plume of deadly fallout.) 12,000 residents, many in tears, were allowed to return home for the first time in nearly a week, “honking their horns and waving to firefighters.”

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Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous

By Suzy Chaffee on June 16, 2011

Following Bolivia’s passage of their domestic law “Recognizing Mother Earth as a living entity and giving Her the Same Rights as Humans,” the United Nations held a dialogue via an interactive webcast on its “Harmony with Nature” Day, April 20, and it is now working on adopting these rights worldwide.

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Renewing America with Renewable Energy

By Suzy Chaffee on May 16, 2011

On May 11, CNN showed Japan’s nuclear electric officials on their knees apologizing and asking forgiveness from the Japanese people for misleading them about the safety of their nuclear reactors and destroying so many lives. While “We are sorry” helps, it can never return loved ones or a community’s original healthy quality of life after any nuclear-related projects.

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Mother Earth Day

By Suzy Chaffee on April 16, 2011

Ski & Ocean Leaders, Nobel Prize Winners & Earth Guardians invite world communities to ask natives to lead healing ceremonies for UN’s International

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Native Elders, Sports and Ocean leaders Ask You to Join World Prayer to Protect Humanity from Leaking Nuclear Radiation at Noon March 31

By Suzy Chaffee on March 16, 2011

Please say a prayer led by Japan’s Dr Masaru Emoto to protect and clear the waters, air and food supply of Japan and all Earth citizens from radiation now leaking from nuclear reactor! Photo credit: Leosigh.com

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2012 U.S. Budget Priorities: Funding Nuclear Energy and Bombs vs. Dire Community Needs

By Suzy Chaffee on March 16, 2011

On March 18 the “Japanese nuclear reactor chief WEPT as he finally admitted that their radiation leak is serious enough to kill people.” That was just days after telling Japanese citizens that “only those living within 12 miles of the nuclear plants needed to evacuate, while U.S. citizens within 50 miles were ordered out.”

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Urgent Native ‘Tsunami Of Love Prayer’ That Can Help Protect Life

By Suzy Chaffee on February 16, 2011

Since love is the greatest force on Earth, here is a Tsunami of Love Prayer by Indigenous Elders that can phenomenally neutralize the destruction of the “500 mph wave in open seas from their biggest earthquake in history,” reported CNN. The tsunami not only is having devastating effects on millions of people and property, but Elders say the waves cause destruction of Marine life, from our fish, whales and dolphins all the way down to the bottom of the ocean. And right now there is unparalleled seismic activity, a shaking of Mother Earth, verifiable by seismic data centers, which is affecting all life on Earth.

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UN Launches 2011 Ocean Healing Strategy with Aztecs

By Suzy Chaffee on December 18, 2010

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Dec. 31 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “This New Year’s Dawn, 7-8 a.m., January 1st, Mexico’s renowned Aztecas, Mayans and Huichols, on behalf of the United Nations, will dance humanity back into our ancient earth-honoring way of being in 2011, at Puerto Vallarta’s Los Muertos Pier,” said Olympic skier Suzy “Chapstick” Chaffee, co-chair of Native American Olympic Team Foundation (NAOTF).

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Ute/Navajo Elders to Open Vail World Cup Dec 4, To launch ‘UN’s International Mother Earth Day’ Ceremonies

By Suzy Chaffee on December 16, 2010

Vail, Colorado, Dec. 3, 2010 – On Saturday, December 4, 2010, renowned Southern Ute/Navajo Elders, Eddie and Betty Box Jr., along with their wonderful dancers/skiers, will open Vail’s World Cup downhill event with a ‘Blessing Ceremony for the Joy and Safety of Earth’s Greatest Skiers,’ at the finish line of Beaver Creek’s ‘Bird of Prey’ run at 10 am.

“Our Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy is so proud to be hosting the Native dancers who have become part of our Vail Family, to launch Elders-led ceremonies in communities around the world, to create more harmony with Nature leading up to the U.N’s International Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2011,” said Geoff Grimmer, head master of the nearby Minturn school.

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UN Launches 2011 Ocean Healing Strategy with Aztecs

By Suzy Chaffee on December 16, 2010

This officially launches the worldwide Elders-led ocean healing ceremonies leading up to U.N.’s International Mother Earth Day on April 22, 2011, initiated by the Bolivians. World tribes regularly perform ceremonies where the drums call in ancestral and Nature spirits to powerfully send love and appreciation to Mother Earth’s oceans, but given our world eco crisis, the Bolivians saw we need to work cross-culturally.

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UN’s International Mother Earth Day Ceremonies Launched – Ute/Navajo Blessings Delight Vail’s World Cup

By Suzy Chaffee on December 16, 2010

VAIL, Colo., Dec. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — On Saturday, December 4, 2010, renowned Southern Ute/Navajo Elders, Eddie and Betty Box Jr. and their dancer/skiers launched UN’s International Mother Earth Day Ceremonies to open Vail’s Super G at Beaver Creek, and were blessed with a beautiful day so the races could resume, Native American Olympic Team Foundation announced.

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National Ski and Snowboard Expos Outreach Native American Kids

By Suzy Chaffee on November 16, 2009

Indians honored as Pioneers of Skiing this Vancouver Olympic “Tribal” Year. I am so proud that the top Ski and Snowboard Shows in America are leading an outreach to Native kids this Vancouver “Tribal” Olympic Year. Ski Legends, like Billy Kidd, Donna Weinbrecht, and Wayne Wong are getting the word out at the shows that underserved American Indian kids are warmly welcomed to participate in the Free and Discounted “Learn a Snow Sport” Programs in most snow states, along with mainstream youth.

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Pioneers of Skiing and Outreach Native Kids this Vancouver Olympic ‘Tribal’ Year

By Suzy Chaffee on November 16, 2009

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Shows are honoring Native American Tribes for pioneering skiing 8-10,000 years ago, along with a heart-warming ski outreach to expand snowsports opportunities for Native kids this Vancouver “Tribal” Olympic Year.

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Hail Billie Jean King and Ted Kennedy – Native American Contributors to Title 1X

By Suzy Chaffee on September 16, 2009

Native Americans can take pride that Tennis icon Billie Jean King, a Cherokee, and Ted Kennedy, descendant of an honorary Iroquois Chief, did wonders to create equal opportunities for girls/women in sports and education in America and abroad. By enforcing the 1972 Title 1X Education Amendments Act, they actually helped restore those equitable traditional ways of the First Americans, which were interrupted in the last 150 years.

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Jim Thorpe’s Sons Bolster Native American Olympic Dream

By Suzy Chaffee on June 16, 2009

Heart-warming steps toward realizing a dream of creating a Native American Olympic Team were made at Oklahoma’s City’s “American Indian Sovereignty Symposium” on June 4, 2009. At the sports panel Bill and Jack Thorpe, sons of the late Jim Thorpe, voted the “Greatest Athlete in Modern Times,” joined forces and then offered critical resources to help Indian youth vie for the 2012 London and 2014 Russian Olympics.

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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
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