Our Native Voices Foundation board just approved putting Bennie LeBeau's Earth Wisdom Foundation under our 501(c)3 umbrella, so that people can get a write off to be able to help him, (and us) help you and your snow farmers. 

After your brilliant invitation for us to do a prayer-ceremony at your Seattle show, which led to our going, (besides Denver), to Sacramento and LA, that turned out the be their best snow!  We are sorry that a simple bandaid approach of prayers and sharing the skiing with the tribes at your ski show (and beyond) didn't work there, since you and so many of your ski areas were so sincere!!!  But it seems that your Pacific Northwest Region has similar dynamics as the Southern California drought, so Bennie says, and and you needed a more complex solution.   

Here are some insights that I helped Bennie put on paper, after I talked to you - to help you and your ski areas understand what you need to do to stop your drought short and long term - considering the thousands and millions of dollars that some ski areas and states were going to use for cloudseeding, when Skiing Magazine's Jan 2004 issue said that "it is more prayer-based than science."  A chemistry professor at Big Bear Lake has the studies I can get you that silver-oxide is toxic to the environment, animals and us. 

Scott, of all the ski area regional leaders, you seemed to have the most passionate, deeper understanding of Nature.  Hopefully some of this material will help you persuade your ski areas to open their minds and hearts to a force and higher wisdom that Vail used to save themselves opening year in the 60's (ask Bob Parker), followed by so many ski areas across America. Why Michael Berry and David Ingimie support us.  You too can be a hero to your communities for so little.  

Oh, I just thought of another way you could get some extra Nature kudos, following the Minnesota reservation tragedy from hopelessness - Native Americans have the highest suicide rate of any race - an invisible epidemic until now.  I will send you the e-mail about an Alaskan Native girl that just won the US Junior Olympics in Snowboarding and doesn't have enough to attend the Jr Olympics in Switzerland starting April 2nd. Since Alaska is your area, if you have any friends who could give her a hand, you could lift the spirits of Ekimos and Indian Country, which would enhance the sustainable future of skiing.

Here is what Shoshone Bennie LeBeau, the hero of the Grand Tetons and San Bernardinos wrote:

In the Eastern Shoshone Culture, the Grand Tetons are known as the mountains of precipitation (moisture), which bring back the rainbows, hence the Rainbow Warrior Prophecy, and the return of these rainbows (with water and snow) is the sign of that prophecy!  To better understand how this is manifested in each of our regions:  the emotional vibration of all our mountains as a result of what we have or not done (construction, blasting rock, accidents...), or what we have healed or not healed, determines the precipitation levels. (In Hawaii, most White businessmen bring in a Kahuna to bless the land before digging) The French even found that if a valley was developed beyond a certain level, they interrupted the precipitation cycle and no longer had enough snow to ski on. 

But it is more complex than that.  Since, for example, the San Bernardino’s are connected to a national medicine wheel grid, with the Grand Tetons at the center, it was critical that the Teton ley lines were first healed and reactivated, to send electro magnetic energy as a critical part of reactivating the San Bernardino’s (ley lines) and surrounding areas.  Similar ceremonies would have to take place in the drought-ridded Pacific Northwest, for example, to help heal Mother Nature for Her to be able to re-harmonize and rebalance the moisture there.

For this to happen, those that take from the mountains must give back in the form of sincerely assisting those who lead these ceremonies, and inviting the tribes back to their ancestral lands on an on-going basis, to share the joys of the mountains to also uplift and replenish their health and spirits, so they can continue their prayers, (including gratitude ones) and ceremonies. (For example, Mt Hood and others are graciously inviting tribal Elders in summer to use their lifts to pick their traditional berries & medicinals there. Heavenly Valley, who started sharing skiing and boarding 4-5 times a season, is soon opening an interpretive center for its Washoe Tribes and coincidentally got tons of snow this year.)

Earth Wisdom Foundation's vision and goal is to hold a series of ceremonial events (in the proper timing) at Americas’ sacred sites, as well as educational events nationally and internationally. These events will assist many spiritual leaders, advisors and individuals to gather together to blend their loving work across the Americas and planet.  These events will help us all remember the Earth Wisdom that all our ancient ancestors had, and how the Universal Laws work to bring harmony, peace and balance upon Earth.

The Magnificent 19 + 1 = 20 Ceremony (surrounding the Grand Tetons) on May 8th, 2004 (a stated vision that came to pass), and the Big Bear Medicine Wheel Ceremony on November 15th, 2004, began this new cycle of movement toward reconnection and oneness.  The mountains, water, air and fire (electrical energy) began to sing in harmony their song of renewing and repairing Mother Earth.  In the radii of the Medicine Wheel Ceremonies a new vibrational resonance was reborn in physical form.  Through these circular medicine wheels a spiritual breath pattern was reborn, which repaired the sacred flower of life: the sacred geometrical patterns in grid lines, ley lines, and song lines in natures’ springs, lakes, rivers, deserts and mountains.  These ceremonies, supported by thousands of people of the Red, White, Black and Yellow Nations, standing on the sacred sites surrounding these mountains, brought back the “Sacred Breath of Life" in the form of moisture in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks in the Wyoming Ceremony and Big Bear Lake Medicine Wheel Ceremony. 

The many prophecies say we are working towards being of one mind and one heart, a blending of All Nations in Peace and in Harmony to bring balance to Mother Earth and her inhabitants. The term 'All Nations' is translated as cross-cultural, religions, races, creeds and colors. 

A very special thanks goes out to NVF’s Suzy Chaffee and Akima Castaneda that helped in honoring us and bring out our message mainstream through honoring us at the Los Angles Ski Dazzle Show.  Many have been thanked personally and by telephone and by the Creator’s messengers.  Again, thank each of you who took time out of your lives to assist us with our mission: purifying your minds, hearts and spirits and praying with us at the sacred sites, donating your time, effort and finances to help our Mother the Earth heal, as well as our families and our relationships with one another.  These ceremonies were not about finances or egos; it is about working together for one common cause, peace and harmony in all things. A huge thank you goes out to Suzy and a Japanese Ski Instructor who honors water and snow, who gave me a great ski lesson at Snow Summit Ski Resort above the Big Bear Lake on March 4th.  I also commend Suzy for taking the time to work with me in prayer healing the elements on the ski slopes of the Big Bear Community before I would take the ski lesson, asking first permission from the mountain to ski.  Many blessings to her and Akima and others for the work they are doing with Native youth through Native Voices Foundation. 

Thanks for your interest towards a 'Peaceful Union'. Those who look upon one another with open hearts are living in the time of the Rainbow Warrior Prophecy, an era of great change. “The tasks of the rainbow warriors would be many and great.  There would be mountains of ignorance to conquer and they would meet prejudice and hatred.  They must be dedicated, unwavering in strength and strong of heart.  They would find willing hearts and minds that would follow them on this road of healing.  Peace and plenty would then reign through a long and joyous Golden Age.”

• For more info on Bennie's ceremonies see: www.teton-rainbows.com
• For the Dr Emoto's NY Times Best-selling "Messages from Water" - Japanese studies on the effect of prayer and love on water see: www.Hado.net
• For world press stories on tribes partnering with ski areas to help with snow, see: www.nativevoices.org