Knowledge Share Description
Contextualizing the Anthropocene: In need of new modes of relating with Mother Earth, with one another, and with ourselves, we yet find that the limits of our language are often the limits of our world, and the perimeter of our stories circumscribes what we are able to imagine and therefore able to live into. Many of us are trapped in prevailing modes and languages of domination. English, as a language, and the European thought paradigms from which it derives, elevate worldview and thought forms that invisibly constrain our intuiting and relating with life, often unconsciously.
Led by Tiokasin Ghosthorse of the Cheyenne River Lakota, Peace and Earth Activist in which he describes as a non-mathematical quantum mechanical language of intuition, we will explore ways for kindling the indigeneity that resides within each of us, and birthing forth the language and heart thoughts required to move us out of our own way: out of narcissism, anthropocentrism, and self-interest, into a more transparent and verb-based relating. We will retire thought forms and antique world-views, co-generating a more vivid description of living energies of relating, inspired by Tiokasin’s experience of language and cosmology, and explore practices for implementing these new forms, ways of knowing, and ways of speaking into our life, work, and relationships.
Cost
$35 - BIPOC or low income
$75 - standard or reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
The zoom link will be sent 1-2 days prior to the knowledge share. Recording will be available for 30 days.
For scholarships please email info@herbancura.com with subject Earth Being
Accessibility Information
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
*Live captioning & ASL interpretation may be available with advance notice
*Spanish interpretation may be available with advance notice (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a info@herbancura.com)
Virtual Gathering
Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share
5:00pm - 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.
Facilitator
TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE—Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota—is an author, international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. A survivor of the “Reign of Terror” from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Lakota Reservations in South Dakota and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to “kill the Indian and save the man,” Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He spoke as a 15 year-old at the United Nations - Lake Geneva, Switzerland. He is a board member of Simply Smiles, and Restorative Practices Alliance. Tiokasin speaks frequently at venues such as Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry, Union Theological Seminary focusing on the cosmology, diversity and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society. Tiokasin was a 2016 Nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. He was selected for a 2016 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Fellowship in Music, and was a Nominee for a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2017, National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee 2018 and 2019, He also was recently nominated for “Nominee for the 2020 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities” and 2019 Indigenous Music Award Nominee for "Best Instrumental Album" for "From the Continuum.” He was also awarded New York City’s Peacemaker of the Year in 2013. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the 30 year-old award-winning “First Voices Radio” (formerly “First Voices Indigenous Radio”), a weekly one-hour live program syndicated to over 120 public, community and commercial radio stations in the US and Canada. A master musician and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide (over 50 countries) and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Ruben Museum, Morgan Library, The Apollo Theatre, and the United Nations, and uncountable universities and concert venues. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children. Tiokasin is “a perfectly flawed human being” and a Sundancer in the cosmology of the Lakota Nation. He can also be found through First Voices Indigenous Radio & the Akantu Institute.