Power of Sports and the Olympics

Since there are no know Native Americans competing in the Salt Lake Olympics, in order to create a spotlight this Olympic year for Ross Anderson, Seneca James Kleinert, Jan Bucher, Ute World Ballet Champion, Tulilup Stew Young, “Fastest Veteran on Skis,” and 25 other great Native skiers and boarders...
--In order to honor Native Americans for the sports they invented and their sports heroes like Jim Thorpe, Baseball Legend Louis Sokalexis, The Bronze Medal World Chamionship Iroquois Lacrosse Team (US & Canada were first), Navajo-Pueblo Golf Champions Tiger Woods and Notah Begay, Cherokee Billy Jean King, Indy 500 star Cory Witherell, Sidney Olympic Navajo Marathoner Jan Posey, and Olympic Gold Medal Racer Picabo Street...

--To maximize the opportunities being offered (possibly only) during this Olympic year to help create grass roots winter sports opportunies at ski areas across America, the key to creating future Native Winter
Olympians...

--To help bolster grass roots summer sports programs across America, including through the Indigenous Sports Circles, and to develop Summer and Winter Native Olympians through the Native American Sports Council’s efforts, as this is the one Olympics where Native Americans will be historically honored...
--To bolster ethics in society. Through sports we learn good sportsmanship and ethics, the basis of all humane civilizations. (Our society reflects today’s sports standards of ethics, which is comparable
to those of the Roman Empire - why the more advanced Greek Civilization as well as Native Americans throughout history put a strong emphasis on sports, dance and physical development, for in order to balance the planet, each of us needs to be more balanced. (Chaffee saw where the Egyptian Pharaoh’s had to compete in a running race to keep their jobs and they had strict laws against anyone who polluted their streams or fowl the soil.)

--Living with Pueblo Indians while looking for healthy psychological people, at the turn of the 19th Century, Carl Jung, the Father of Modern Psychology, found that we need to get high through sports or dance, out
of our urge to merge with Creator, the fountain of everything. Otherwise there is a tendency to seek second class highs and second class spirits, in bottles. The best way to teach is by example and helping our children
form good sports habits for life by age 6. (That’s when Swede’s take their kids on hikes in schools to teach them how to be guardians of the land.)

--To honor sports legends to inspire the youth like Jim Thorpe, Louis Sokalexis, Muhammad Ali, Billy Jean King, Bill Bradley, Billy Mills, and Aborigine Cathy Freeman. They have also done more to lift the consciousness of the people, to improve the status of their race or sex, through joy, than any other force. An Australian journalist said six months after the Sidney Games “that the Opening Ceremonies and Cathy
Freeman’s victory changed the consciousness of Australians, so much so, that if the Prime Minister doesn’t do something big for their Aboriginal Peoples, they’ll roll him over.”

-And to thereby upstep the physical, spiritual and psychological health of American Indians, particularly the youth, the 7th Generation, to give them the tools, together with the youth of mainstream America, to make
wise choices in the future direction of the planet. The Native American Sports Philosophy predate’s Atlantis (Maud Smith’s “Growing Straight”), including inventing 6 Olympic Sports. Finding a lifetime sport, especially in Nature, that connects us to our joy, unlocks our full potential. Following the near destruction of Native American traditions in the last 120 years by our government boarding schools and policies, NVF’s programs give Natives a chance to get back their balanced way of life!

Therefore, to give Native Americans a chance to be sports heroes in Salt Lake, NVF has developed the following “7 Olympic Dreams Projects” that, with funding from individual donations (on web), sponsors, foundations and associations, can have far-reaching effects on Indian Country and the planet this Olympic Year. NVF is a 501C3 Colorado non profit. Supporters can tell their grandchildren that they were part of this historic healing that helped preserve opportunities in Nature for them, while sponsors may also receive incomparable goodwill publicity and product loyalty, since “Native Americans are the No 1 Draw of this
Olympics,” according to a Salt Lake Organizing Committee poll. The following is a synopsis of the Projects, more details are available by clicking “Olympic Dreams Projects.”

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