Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Oyate Tokaheya Wicakiye - He Places The Nation First) is from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota. He is the host of First Voices Radio, syndicated nationally and internationally. First Voices Radio brings to the airwaves the experiences, perspectives and struggles of Indigenous people who have been almost totally excluded from both mainstream and progressive, alternative media. Our purpose is to help ensure the continuance and survival of Indigenous cultures and Nations by letting the People tell their own story, in their own words, and often in their own languages and ways of speaking. It is said that if the lies continue about Native peoples it will create an illusion that all Americans will dearly pay for in the future...and the future is now. Tiokasin brings his global perspective experience of living with and understanding these two worlds — Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

Tiokasin has had a long history in Indigenous rights activism and advocacy. He spoke, as a teenager, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Tiokasin Ghosthorse is also 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 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.

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