Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. 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 international perspectives of reality. Tiokasin is the founder, host and executive producer of the twenty-eight-year-old “First Voices Radio” (formerly “First Voices Indigenous Radio”), a one-hour live program now syndicated to 100+ radio stations in the US and Canada. He is also a professional musician having recorded multiple LPs and has performed at the Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations, among other venues. This essay was written as part of the #CuraDaTerra series.