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CEREMONIAL LEADERS AT SACRED SITES

Woody Vaspra – (Hawaiian-Chinese) President World Council of Elders (in almost every country), leading ceremonies around the world. He says they need to be stepped up.

Adam Yellowbird (Hebrew) – TM Experiments, President of Earthworks for Humanities(.org), founder of Earthdance8(.org), an International Multi-cultural gathering with a world network, including 15,000 Europeans. Brought in to Circle of Elders of the people of the Condor (heart-centered SA & Central American Tribes) to help unite with the People of the Eagle, the mind-centered North American Indigenous.

WORLD PRAYER NETWORK LEADERS

French Princess Caroline Murat – closest descendent of Napoleon, internationally renowned pianist, NVF European leader, initiated NA Olympic Team Bid, international networks

Jan Roberts – President, Earth Charter US.org (2,500 organizations), member of UN Sustainability Education Committee

Bob Gough, Secretary of Native Wind(.org), Native American Olympic Sponsor, Carbon Offsets leader supported by VP Gore, gave us Earth (pic for 1st World Prayer on www.Snow-riders.org)

Mary Ho – President, China Millennium Council(.org), liaison to China, Olympic Hosts, Pacific Rim countries, Ivy League sustainable leaders, bringing Indian dancers to China prior to Games.

Sperry Andrews – scientist, President of Human Connection Institute(.org), liaison to Oneness Network (scientists, physicists, Indian Avitars, Oneness University, Diksha Movement

Kestner Flores (Cortina Rancheria) – Indian advisor to EPA of Cal & Arizona, liaison to (200 tribes) National Tribal Environmental Council(.org)

Marie Pascale – French liaison to Earth Day(.org), Transcendental Meditation (TM), and ‘Conversations with God’(.org), ‘The Beloved Community’ and ‘Gather The Women.’

Chief ( Lyons) Nancy Millette (Kowasak Abenaki) –organized Vt-NH Nawihla Pow Wow June 2,3saluted by NH Gov John Lynch, NVF Vt Ski Program, Iroquois Clan Mothers Network

Rick Hunt (Abenaki) – Artist, Director NH Indian Health Services, NVF NH Ski Coordinator Rabbi Michael Saftler – A NVF founder, invented NVF Karmic Offsets Program to fund these Elders-led Sustainable Solutions, liaison to Telluride Mt Film Fest, invented Telly’s Free Box

Mike Waters – developed cutting edge Sustainable Solutions & Networker

Kerrie at Phoenix Voyager(.org), and liaison to an Indigenous Elders network

Scott Halazon – NVF Advisor, Biofuels leader, liaison to Aquarian Network

Matthew Gilbert (Gwichen Athabascan) – Climatologist, organizing Aug Arctic Global Warming Gathering, journalist, grandson of Arctic Elder Rev Trimble Gilbet, wrote Prayer

Valerie Nunez – Apache Elder, healer (DNA), networker

Ray Levesque – First Nations professor, Daily Frybread Network, SA Tribal Angel

Sakina Bluestar (Lakota Elders) liaison to Sedona spiritual community and Hopis

Jim Browder – NW Indian News TV, NA Olympic Team Sponsor, covered first World Prayer and launch of Washington’s Puyallup Future Olympians Program at Snoqualmie

Dr Roberto Villafana (Mayan-Yaqui)– top biological dentist, member of International Academy of Oral Medicine, founding Native America Dental College (mercury free), removed silver (50% mercury) fillings from CA Congresswoman Diane Watson, author of CA’s Right to Know Dental Mercury Bill that NVF helped get enforced-prevent fetal brain damage, SA Elders liaison

Matthew Turner (Cherokee) - Founder Vibrant Sedona, Sedona Town Council Green coordinator (plan for tax credits to replace lawns with cactus..) Arcturian Network Steven “Bennie” Benedict (Cherokee) – founder of Touch the Earth Adventures, liaison to adventurers who wish a deeper connection to the Nature World, partnering with Native Voices

Louis Mejia - (Columbian Kogi Tribe) Film & TV producer, www.thewomb.com

Herb Strongeagle, First Nation’s NHL Hockey Scout, liaison to First Nations of Canada

Howard Shanker – Won 2007 case protecting San Francisco Peaks from grey water (in snowmaking) for the Arizona Tribes that protected SW Aquifer, running for Congress,

Connie Marlow & Andrew Bailey – Founders of theINNstitute(.com) & Sedona, at Page Springs B&B (tribal themed), producers of “IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE” - Investigating Indigenous views of our origins, from world's oldest people, the Kalahari Bushmen, to evidence of an impending evolutionary quantum leap in human consciousness.

Debbie West – Founder Hologram Communication.com, the Miracle Network, webdesigner & webmaster of NATIVEVOICES.ORG

Janet Boyd (Cherokee) – webdesigner & webmaster of www.SNOW-RIDERS.ORG – See World Prayer Stories, and Native American Olympic Team Information, ski resort-tribal bridge

Over a Billion Earth Family Members

FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS

Dick Enersen Foundation – America’s Cup Winner and liaison to Stanford’s Climate leaders

Ambassador Gilbert A. Robinson (Ret.) - Chairman of 21 st Century Foundation, Corporations to End World Hunger Foundation (feeding orphans in Russia)

Kit and Calvert Collins Family Foundation – Kit is anthropologist, did TM experiments

DeBartolo Family Foundation

Suzy Chaffee, co-founder, co-chair of Native American Olympic Team Foundation, monthly Elders-led World Prayer Organizer & Ceremonies Coordinator.

IN PROCESS OF CONFIRMING JOINING PRAYER NETWORK

Dr Steven Schneider – Stanford Climate specialist partnering with Elders on Global Warming

Prince Albert (Lakota adoptee) – Olympic Bobsledder, IOC member, NVF European Advisor, led expedition to North Pole last year to raise awareness of Global warming and honor his great great grandfather, Albert 1, who founded Oceanographic Institute after hunting with and being adopted by the Lakotas, like Sitting Bull.

Vice President Gore, including for his 777 World Event

Florademayo (Mayan Priestess healer) – Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Grandfather Martin – Hopi Prophesy leader

Oren Lyons - Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse leader, historian, liaison to an Elders Network

Chris Dekker – Earthdance founder, 200 events in 50 countries, NVF helped get more Elders to help guide participants in three countries through Woody Vaspra.

Bob Gough, Secretary of Native Wind(.org) & Intertribal Coup, Carbon Offsets leader, supported by VPt Gore, Native American Olympic Sponsor Union of Ethical Scientists

Vice President Gore, including for his 777 World Event

Bobby Kennedy Jr, founder NRDC(.org), friend to tribes

The Guinness Family of Ireland who want to partner with NVF is a Healing of the Continents starting with Europe and America, Judge Ben Zvenia (Cherokee), Indian Judges Network.

David Ingimie – Prez, SnowSports Industries of America, Native Am Olympic Sponsor

Union of Ethical Scientists

Noa Lincoln (Hawaiian) Yale grad, Bishop Museum Botonist, Stanford Fellow. liaison to environmental exchange between Hawaiian and Maori environmental leaders who were part of first true exchange with Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment in 2007

Alaskan Winter Games – 13 countries

Berkiebeiner X-Country Race Director, 14 counties

Cindy Stenger, Exec Director, US Olympic Alumni Assoc (6,000 athletes)

Deborah Willians and Mary Walker, Alaska Conservation Solutions, who suggested:

Will Steger, who just finished an educational expedition mushing across Canadian Arctic Circle raising awareness of Global Warming.

Steven “Bennie” Benedict (Cherokee) – founder of Touch the Earth Adventures, liaison to adventurers who wish a deeper connection to the Nature World, partnering with Native American Olympic Team Foundation to start Native led Eco Tours at National Forest and Parks lands to possibly be launched in the Grand Canyon with the Havasupai Tribe on National Trails Day, the first week in Sept, partnered with:

Ivan Levin - National Hiking Society, the National Trails Day host who covered the Penobscots blessing the Apalacian Trail in Maine and Abenaki Chief Nancy Lyons Millette launching blessing the Green Mt Trails in Vermont

Angaeque (Greenland Elder) international speaker on Global Warming

The Puja Network

The Korean Dahn Yoga Network

Nature Conservancy

Over a Billion Earth Family Members. Together 1/3 of Earth Inhabitants