Tiokasin and FVIR in the Press

"Disaster Uranium: Democratic Presidential Candidates Backed by Nuclear Powerhouses"
Article by Jessica Lee from the Indypendent, New York City Independent Media Center

While Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to spar for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, a hidden conflict over uranium mining and radioactive waste dumping is simmering, pitting the two candidates, other prominent politicians and Wall Street financiers against many indigenous and non-native American communities. >>Read More or view the article online.

"Tiokasin Ghosthorse Reaches New Yorkers With Indigenous World Views"
Article by Natasha Terry on iaiachronicle.org

New York—“Humankind will cease to exist if Native Americans become extinct,” says Tiokasin Ghosthorse. “If you kill off a species, you remove a balance from that chain and things start to collapse. The earth cannot live without animals; [but] the earth can live without humans. >>Read More or view the article online

"Where's the Respect?" Article by Michael Kane on gnn.tv

But the spectacle deeply offended a number of the original peoples of this land according to Tiokasin Ghosthorse, the host of “First Voices” on New York City’s Pacifica Radio outlet WBAI 99.5 FM, Thursday at 10 AM. Reached for comment, Tiokasin told GNN, “I suppose it would take a national apology as big as the exposure they (Outkast) were privileged to, and to come and actually stay with Native people for quite a while.” >>Read More or view the entire article online

"Indigenous People are not of the Past" Article by MariJo Moore on Amerinda.org

In a recent conversation I asked Tiokasin why he had chosen radio as a means of communication. He answered that radio is a medium in which the sounds and the intonations of our voices are presented the same as oral culture. Growing up on the reservation, he was constantly watching and listening to the elders who were “eloquent speakers and whose abstract concepts compelled deepened thinking.” >>Read More or View the article online

Participatory video workshop gives voice to Indigenous People's Concerns at the United Nations on UNDP.org June 1, 2006

“We need to get away from the type of linear, hierarchical, rational thinking processes and get back to our own indigenous thinking processes which are primarily very holistic, very egalitarian, very inclusive.” Tiokasin Ghosthorse >>Read more or View the article online