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COLUMN: Suzy Chaffee

Column: Suzy Chaffee, Olympian and co-founder of Native Voices Foundation

January’s U.S. ‘Snowdance Phenomena’ Model for June’s RIO+20
Mon, 21 May 2012 15:50:57 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: The UN’s International Mother Earth Day, in solidarity with Earth Day, following January’s Snowdance Phenomena that saved Western ski areas from the “driest winter in 130 years,” helped inspire billions of Green Acts in April. This is paving the way for more phenomenal [...]

Super Bowl and First Ladies Inspire Solutions to Greatly Reduce Hunger
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:39:07 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: Hail to the National Football League (NFL) for compassionately hosting “Super Bowl Parties with a Purpose” this year through their “Taste of the NFL” and “Kick Hunger Challenge” to valiantly assist food banks in every NFL city.

Please Help U.S. Ski Areas by Including Mother Earth on Valentine’s Day
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:28:40 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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 [...]

Indigenous Elders Input Key to Restoring Earth at UN’s RIO+20
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:43:35 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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.

Hail to First Lady Betty Ford, Earth Hero! (Along with the Tribes of the Americas, Carl Jung, and AA)
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:41:05 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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.

Los Alamos Protected by Rains thanks to World Prayers, including on Mt Baldy and 19 Other ‘Holy Mountains’
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:05:11 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: More Prayers Needed for Oceans, Reactors, Floods and 32 US Fires. “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.

Pilgrimages to ’19 Holy Mountains’ Can Prevent Massive Ocean Die Outs and Create Earth’s New Dawn
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:25:51 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: CNN revealed on June 22, that “A mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming unless we take swift action,” reported the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO). The cause is a combination of stressors: Radiation and [...]

Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous
Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:49:21 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: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 [...]

Renewing America with Renewable Energy
Tue, 17 May 2011 17:37:34 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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 [...]

Choosing Prophesied 1,000 Years of Peace and Prosperity vs Nuclear Energy Suicide
Tue, 03 May 2011 17:37:51 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: Following Japan’s tragic nuclear wake up call, humanity is at a pivotal crossroads: Choosing to keep pouring billions more dollars into trying to make “uninsurable” nuclear energy safer, despite more cost effective alternatives, and given that top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, agree [...]

Ocean and Ski Leaders and Nobel Prize Winners, Invite World Communities to Ask Tribes to Lead Healing Ceremonies for UN’s International Mother Earth Day – April 22
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:47:49 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: To help rebalance Mother Earth to smooth out these 2012 earth changes and to protect and purify our oceans and mountains from Japan’s radiation leak, leaders of the US and Canadian SnowSports Industries, Cousteau’s Ocean Futures, Mountaineers like Jim Whittaker, biologists from Mexico [...]

2012 U.S. Budget Priorities: Funding Nuclear Energy and Bombs vs. Dire Community Needs
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:08:46 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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 [...]

Urgent Native ‘Tsunami Of Love Prayer’ That Can Help Protect Life
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:21:34 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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 [...]

Decision Time: Billions to Nuclear vs. Renewable Energy for U.S. and Colorado
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:45:40 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: The Obama Administration wants to triple the already $18.5 billion appropriated for new nuclear reactors to $54.5 billion in America’s 2012 Budget, which is being decided any day. Plus Coloradans have a deadline of March 15, whether to fund a Nuclear Plant in [...]

Multi-Cultural Ocean and Gulf Healing Ceremonies Applauded by U.N.
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:41:48 -0400 EDT
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eNewsChannels COLUMN: 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.” [...]

US Ski and Snowboard Expos Honor Tribes as Pioneers of Skiing and Outreach Native Kids this Vancouver Olympic ‘Tribal’ Year
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:03:33 -0400 EDT
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COLUMN: 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. Ski Legends like Billy Kidd, as well as this weekend, [...]

National Ski and Snowboard Expos Outreach Native American Kids
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:44:47 -0400 EDT
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COLUMN: 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 [...]

Hail Billie Jean King and Ted Kennedy – Native American Contributors to Title 1X
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:39:51 -0400 EDT
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COLUMN: 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 [...]

Salute to Ted Kennedy by Women Athletes Everywhere!
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:23:17 -0400 EDT
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COLUMN: Generations of vibrant American girls and women, as well as those from countries worldwide, will always be grateful to Senator Ted Kennedy, a beautiful skier, sailor, football and tennis player, for being a champion of women’s rights. He was pivotal in providing equality in [...]

Jim Thorpe’s Sons Bolster Native American Olympic Dream
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:47:22 -0400 EDT
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COLUMN: 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 [...]

Native Voices: Green Lifestyle Film Fest has Certified Organic Native American Values
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:44:58 -0400 EDT
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COLUMN: I got to witness the 2009 Green Lifestyle Film Fest at my UCLA alma mater March 13-15, transform from a ‘little green engine (of eccentrics) that could,’ into a global green fest heavyweight. The director Dorit invited me to help create a green bridge [...]

Native Voices: 7.7.07 Lowers Earth Temp, 7/17 Energizes Oceans
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:25:49 -0400 EDT
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Al Gore - Photo courtesy Marilu Lopez-FrettsCOLUMN: Hail to Pragmatists Embracing Scientific & Spiritual Global Cooling Solutions Thanks to our Earth Hugs on 7.7.07 and 7/17, “the Earth temperature slightly lowered, and the oceans were re-energized, which will continue if we continue,” say many Saints / Holy Ones / Ascended Masters / Seers / Star Nations, depending on your faith, backed by our intuition.

Native Voices: Naomi Lang – First Indian Woman Olympian; Hot ‘Latin on Ice’ TV Special
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:55:46 -0400 EDT
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Naomi LangCOLUMN: To the sultry strains of Carlos Santana / Rob Thomas, stunning Naomi Lang (Karuk Tribe), 2002 Utah Olympic ice dancing star, melts the “Latin On Ice” Special on the Style Network Friday, Jan. 12th at 5pm ET and on Sunday, Jan. 14th at 10am ET.


 
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