Tiokasin is a Sun Dancer first and foremost in the vows of the Lakota Wicohan. A board member and/or an advisory member of the following non-profit organizations:

CHANGING WINDS (www.changingwinds.org) especially with the year-round help for Lakota reservations and children. Please see their website for more information.

CINEMINGA (www.cineminga.org) is a collective that links peoples East and West, and North and South through digital stortytelling. Our goal is to strengthen traditional cultures by supporting community media projects.

LAKOTA YOUTH ARTS COUNCIL (a newly formed non-profit) working on suicide prevention and education, through cultural arts, environmental and history; and Mitakuye Oyasin. (more to come)

SIMPLY SMILES (www.simplysmiles.org)
On the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota there exists poverty on a staggering scale. As our first domestic endeavor, Simply Smiles is honored to have been welcomed into this community and to be able to support t