Elicia Goodsoldier on “Make No Bones About It.” May 8th, 2016 5pm

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Elicia Goodsoldier is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and also belongs to the Spirit Lake Dakota Sioux Tribe. She currently lives in Denver, CO and co-chairs the Denver American Indian Commission and is a board member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She works as mental health counselor, often visiting the Pine Ridge Indian reservation where she lived for 10 years. She frequently speaks on the importance of understanding historical and intergenerational trauma and how it affects our people today, especially the youth. She is the co-coordinator of the Wikoskalaka Yuwita Pi (Young Women’s Camp) in Porcupine, SD.

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