Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, with a long record of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He is the founder, host, and executive producer of First Voices Radio (formerly First Voices Indigenous Radio), a nationally and internationally syndicated program he has run for 29 years from New York City and Seattle/Olympia, Washington. He is also associated with the Akantu Institute.

His work centers on Indigenous worldviews and their bearing on education, climate change, and dialogue across cultures. He looks at the problems humanity faces now through the lens of Indigenous knowledge.

Tiokasin is also a musician. He received a 2016 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Fellowship in Music, and he was a 2019 Indigenous Music Award nominee for Best Instrumental Album. New York City named him Peacemaker of the Year in 2013. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 by the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. His other nominations include a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship (2017), the National Native American Hall of Fame (2018 and 2019), and an Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities (2020).

https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/
https://www.akantuinstitute.org/