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April 2021 - Tending the Roots

DAY 3 : Regeneration: Not a "New Normal" with Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Teacher(s):
Tiokasin Ghosthorse

The languages of regeneration are encoded within Earth cultures, which have already shifted according to non-anthropocentric Indigenous peoples. We all began in a non-anthropocentric manner of knowing that it isn’t all about the human, but the Being in all life… even fire. Even water. Even winds. Even Earth.https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/

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About the teacher(s):
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse—a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota—is an 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 is a guest faculty member at Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry focusing on the cosmology, diversity and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society.

https://humansandnature.org/tiokasin-ghosthorse/