Host and Producer of First
Voices Indigenous Radio
I can't let go of the ancient ways
It's in the blood I can't let go
It's in the blood
Tiokasin is available for
concerts, lectures and other speaking engagements. Please email:
Tiokasin@gmail.com to book your event
scheduling.
Tiokasin Ghosthorse,
the Lakota musician from Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South
Dakota, storyteller, poet, university lecturer, scholar, essayist and
human rights activist, one of the great exponents of the ancient red
cedar Lakota flute, and plays traditional and contemporary music, using
both Indigenous and European instruments. He is a master musician, has
played since the age of 3, and teacher of magical, ancient and modern
sounds. He has been a major figure in preserving and reviving the cedar
wood flute tradition and has combined "spoken word" and music in
performances since childhood.
He has performed world-wide and
has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations, numerous universities
and concerts. He also has a long career in Indigenous rights activism
and currently hosts a program on WBAI
called First Voices
Indigenous Radio in New York City. He has currently
released a new CD: "Ksa" with the group Ghosthorse.
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
spoke, as a teenager, at the United Nations Conference on Human Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in
Geneva, Switzerland. He participated in several occupations including
Wounded Knee, SD in 1973, Lyle Point, WA, Western Shoshone, NV, and Big
Mountain, AZ, and has been actively educating people who live on Turtle
Island (N. America) and overseas since that time. Tiokasin is also a
survivor of the "Reign of Terror" from 1972-1976 on the Pine Ridge
Lakota Reservation, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and
Church Missionary School systems designed to "kill the Indian and save
the man".
I am not a "Native American",
this misnomer was conjured up by the politically correct U.S.
government. I am an Indigenist in all meanings of the word. I think all
the Native peoples here in the 'occupied' lands called America would
agree that we were free before America ever appeared.
Tiokasin's
offerings (45 to 90 minutes) present traditional and contemporary Lakota
stories, flute and vocal songs, and Plains sign language. His flute and
vocal performances are rich with informative and inspirational stories
of historical and modern-day Lakota culture.
Tiokasin's presentations allow
thoughts to delve into coexisting issues, problems and challenges within
a milieu of traditional Lakota/Indigenous culture and history. The
teachings are neither out-dated nor out-of-step with the modern, always
drawing strength from a traditional past. Adapting his seminars to the
needs of the participants, Tiokasin beckons the
traditional songs, stories and flute arias from the elements. His words
of Indigenous insight and global concern are offered though the
experience of "one Lakota living in one world".
Tiokasin has been described as
"a spiritual agitator, natural rights
organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator and a community
activator".
Host and Producer of First Voices
Indigenous Radio
I can't let go of the ancient ways
It's in the blood I can't let go
It's in the blood
Tiokasin is available for concerts,
lectures and other speaking engagements. Please email:
Tiokasin@gmail.com
to book your event scheduling.
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, the
Lakota musician from Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of
South Dakota, storyteller, poet, university lecturer,
scholar, essayist and human rights activist, one of the
great exponents of the ancient red cedar Lakota flute, and
plays traditional and contemporary music, using both
Indigenous and European instruments. He is a master
musician, has played since the age of 3, and teacher of
magical, ancient and modern sounds. He has been a major
figure in preserving and reviving the cedar wood flute
tradition and has combined "spoken word" and music in
performances since childhood.
He has performed world-wide and has been
featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations, numerous
universities and concerts. He also has a long career in
Indigenous rights activism and currently hosts a program on
WBAI
called First Voices Indigenous Radio
in New York City. He has currently released a new CD: "Ksa"
with the group Ghosthorse.
Tiokasin Ghosthorse spoke,
as a teenager, at the United Nations Conference on Human
Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and
Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He participated in
several occupations including Wounded Knee, SD in 1973, Lyle
Point, WA, Western Shoshone, NV, and Big Mountain, AZ, and
has been actively educating people who live on Turtle Island
(N. America) and overseas since that time. Tiokasin is also
a survivor of the "Reign of Terror" from 1972-1976 on the
Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation, the U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems
designed to "kill the Indian and save the man".
I am not a "Native American", this misnomer
was conjured up by the politically correct U.S. government.
I am an Indigenist in all meanings of the word. I think all
the Native peoples here in the 'occupied' lands called
America would agree that we were free before America ever
appeared.
Tiokasin's offerings (45 to
90 minutes) present traditional and contemporary Lakota
stories, flute and vocal songs, and Plains sign language.
His flute and vocal performances are rich with informative
and inspirational stories of historical and modern-day
Lakota culture.
Tiokasin's presentations allow thoughts to
delve into coexisting issues, problems and challenges within
a milieu of traditional Lakota/Indigenous culture and
history. The teachings are neither out-dated nor out-of-step
with the modern, always drawing strength from a traditional
past. Adapting his seminars to the needs of the
participants, Tiokasin beckons the
traditional songs, stories and flute arias from the
elements. His words of Indigenous insight and global concern
are offered though the experience of "one Lakota living in
one world".
Tiokasin has been described as "a
spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous
thinking process educator and a community activator".
