Tiokasin Ghosthorse: Learning from the Earth as an Elder
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to focus on learning from Earth, as opposed to learning about the earth? How might learning Ianguages of Indigeneity invite us into different ways of seeing and relating to the more-than-human world? And how do we honor the pain and emotional weight of these sobering times — while also staying present to the magic and the beauty of all life?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s kaméa speaks with Lakota Elder Tiokasin Ghosthorse, who founded, hosted, and produced First Voices Radio, and who has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. Tiokasin also recently co-produced and was featured in the documentary The Eternal Song.
Join us as we unravel the many layers of these times of severance, and open ourselves up to the gifts of learning from the Earth as an Elder.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
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| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:55.0 | It's the difference between learning about Earth than learning from Earth. |
| 1:02.0 | I know there's a little thin veil there, but it makes a difference when you're learning from Earth who is teaching you. |
| 1:10.0 | If you're learning about Earth, then the information is regurgitating. |
| 1:16.6 | So we're stuck in this programming. |
| 1:20.3 | And it's not that. |
| 1:26.7 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm so honored to share with you my conversation with Tio Kassin Ghost Horse, |
| 1:39.4 | a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, |
| 1:43.6 | who has a long history of indigenous |
| 1:46.5 | activism and advocacy. He's the founder, host, and executive producer of First Voices Radio |
| 1:54.3 | for the last 27 years, and in 2016, he received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 2:02.5 | I really would recommend setting aside an intentional hour for this episode, |
| 2:08.0 | because there are just so many layers of wisdom woven into this discussion |
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