TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. Tiokasin is an educator, musician and international speaker on peace and the global issues facing Native peoples. He has a long history in Indigenous activism and advocacy. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the internationally syndicated “First Voices Radio,” now in its 30th year of broadcasting.
A master musician of the Lakota flute and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, Apollo Theater, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations, as well as at many universities and concert venues internationally, including, Stockholm, Sweden with the renowned Swedish musician Ebbot Lundberg. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children.
In 2016 Tiokasin received a Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. He is a 2016 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow in Music and in 2018 was an inaugural nominee to the National Native American Hall of Fame. Tiokasin describes himself as a “perfectly flawed human being,” who is a Sundancer in the tradition of the Lakota Nation. Tiokasin’s website is akantuinstitute.org. He is also active on social media: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Made in Kingston, NY