Here is a link and info on the supposed elders coming to Yellowstone..Bennies name is there along with his prices.
http://www.lifewebnetwork.com/funding.htm#donateAbout the Elders and How You Can Help
Total sponsorship donated to-date: $30,170
Total sponsorship needed: $34,210
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Don Alejandro Oxlaj, Grand Elder of the Mayan People, head of the National Mayan Council of Elders, Day Keeper of the Mayan Calendar, Grand Elder of the Continental Council of Elders and Spiritual Guides of the Americas, and a 13th generation Quiche Mayan High Priest. Traveling with his wife Elizabeth Araujo, his interpreter.
Don Alejandro, known as Wondering Wolf, is one of the most highly respected Elders of the Americas. He has lectured all over the world, meeting with other international Elders. He is considered an authority on Mayan prophecy, especially the prophecies of the Jaguar, as well as the prophecies of the Eagle and the Condor. As Grand Elder of the Americas, he is highly regarded as a medicine man and a catalyst for healing on global levels. We are extremely fortunate to have this Mayan Grand Elder as part of The Gathering of One.
Travel: flight from Guatemala City, Guatemala to West Yellowstone, MT for 2
Cost: $2400 or frequent flyer miles donated
Food & Lodging 7 days: $1360
Honorarium: $1000
Total costs: $4760
Donations to date: $4760 ... fully funded
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Milland Lomakema, Hopi Spokesman of Second Mesa. It is rare for the Hopi to participate in any non-Hopi ceremony. But Elder Lomakema has a history of reaching out to other cultures, having met once already with Kogui Elders (Mamos) in one of the first ceremonies in South America bringing together the Eagle and the Condor. Because of his contacts, he has been approached travelers from the South America with the stone tablet of the South, which begins the fulfillment of another prophecy that states that when the stone tablets come together, humanity will move to the next level of Beauty (awareness). The Hopi hold another stone tablet, with the third and fourth tablets located in Tibet and Kenya. These tablets are millennia old. Milland will be traveling with his wife and granddaughter.
Travel: flight from Phoenix, AZ to West Yellowstone for 3 ... Cost: $1200
Food & Lodging for 6 days: $1500
Honorarium: $500
Total costs: $2830
Donations to date: $2830 ... fully funded
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George Nasafotie, Jr., Hopi Keeper of the Secrets and Prophecies. Elder Nasfotie carries the Hopi lineage, of the Secrets of the Hopi , handed down for many generations in his family. As the Keeper of the Prophecies, he understands the importance of what the world is about to attempt. Rarely will a distinguished Keeper work with the White People regarding prophecy. But it turns out that one of the secret prophecies addresses the very thing being brought forward by The Gathering of One. Thus the reason for this rare opportunity to present itself, as the Elders from around the world gather together in West Yellowstone. He travels with his wife, Alberta.
Travel: flight from Phoenix, AZ to West Yellowstone for 2
Cost: $800
Food & Lodging for 6 days: $1360
Honorarium: $500
Total costs:$2660
Donations to date: $2660 ... fully funded
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Bennie "Blue Thunder" Lebeau, medicine man of the Eastern Shoshone, is one of the hosting Elders who will welcome his counterparts to The Gathering of One. As a member of the Spiritual Elders of the Mother Earth, he is acquainted with the other Elders who will be coming to this event and his follow-up event he is putting on at the Grand Tetons on August 8, 2008 (the 8-8-8). Blue Thunder speaks around the world about the necessity of bringing humanity back in harmony with Mother Earth. He is particularly concerned with the Yellowstone caldera which prophecies foretell will enter into another great eruption unless the land is brought back in balance. The Hopi, related to the Shoshone, have a similar prophecy. Elder Nasafotie entered into a four-day vision quest after meeting with our people, and announced afterward that in his visions he saw the caldera going silent if The Gathering of One brought together the 444 people at The Gathering of One. Blue Thunder travels with his wife. As the hosting nation, he also is asking funding for 20 other tribal members to accompany him.
Travel: Gas for the tribe to bring its people, drums, and ceremonial regalia from Wind River reservation, Wyoming, to West Yellowstone ... 200 people in all ... Cost: $5000
Food 7 days and 200 people ... $10,000
Forest Service camping permit for 1 week for 200
8 porta-potties, bear-proof dumpsters, porta-showers, drinking water ... $9000
Honorarium: $1000
Total costs: $25000
Donations to date: $0 ... $25000 needed
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White Eagle Medicine Woman, guardian of the Grandmother Drum that has traveled the world in the name of Peace, has dedicated her life to bringing tribes together, and now the world. This dynamic leader and messenger of Peace has agreed to participate in The Gathering of One as well as serve as a guide in bringing together different traditions and cultures from around the world. She brings with her a staff of five who assist her in her travels across the planet.
Travel: Gas for bringing her staff and the 7 ft. wide Grandmother Drum from Alaska ... Cost: $3500
Food and lodging for 6 for 7 days: $1870
Honorarium: $4000
Donations to date: $9370 ... fully funded
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Sequoyah Trueblood, ambassador of the Northern Tribes and Honorary Elder of the Mamos of South America, is the holder of the prestigious Eagle and Condor Peace Pipe. The Eagle Condor Peace Pipe is considered one of the four most sacred peace pipes of the world. Sequoyah travels the world speaking of the return to Oneness of humanity. He is respected by the Grand Elders of the South for his visionary abilities and his true heart. Sequoyah, as ambassador, has invited the Mamos Elders to meet with the other Elders of the World at West Yellowstone. The Mamos are planning to send two of their Elders, a Grandmother holy woman, and a Grandfather medicine man. The Grandmother will bring with her the secret of The Dance of Oneness, which she will teach all at West Yellowstone. Their enterage will also include a translator.
Travel: flight from Bogota to West Yellowstone for 4
Cost: $4700
Food & Lodging for 7 days: $1400
Honorarium: $1500
Total costs: $7600
Donations to date: $7600 ... fully funded
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Jim Tree sits as a spiritual advisor on the council for the "Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers." He is the Native American Issues Advisor for Montana Youth Homes, and on the board of advisors for the E.T. Seton Institute and, providing council about the Sacred Pipe to inmates of the Montana State Prison Systems. Since the spring of 1999, Jim has been responsible for the "United Nations Turtle Pipe", the Ceremonial Pipe presented to the U.N. in 1978 by Adam and holds this Pipe for ceremonies worldwide representing Native American Leadership Alliance.
Travel: Driving to Yellowstone
Cost: $150
Food & Lodging for 5 days: $980
Honorarium: $250
Total Costs: $1380
Donations to date: $0 ... $1380 needed
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Other requests:
Quetzal Tzab ... Mexico, Mayan Itza shaman & lecturer ... estimated costs ... $2200
Hilario Chiriap ... Ecuador, Shuar medicine man ... estimated costs ... $2200
13 Grandmothers representative ... Margaret Behan ... estimated costs ... $1700
Suran ... Nepal, spiritual teacher ... 5 days of room board travel ... $1200
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