Solana Booth (Nooksack, Tsymsyan, Mohawk) has a vision to open her own “Re-Cover Me In Wellness Center”. She is the founder of Advocates of Sacred, providing indigenous healing modalities, and is president and executive director of the Transitioning Offenders Program that supports systems-impacted Native Americans. She promotes Native American and Alaska Native traditional teachings by being a Traditional Canoe Family Skipper, Speaker/Doer of Ancient Knowings, hunter & gatherer, traditional medicine keeper, Family Violence and Recovery Specialist, Generational Brain-spotting Practitioner, Somatic Archeology Practitioner, and Plant Medicine and Lactation Educator. Additionally, she utilizes Traditional Ceremonies, Traditional Art, First Foods, Birth and Death work, Storytelling or First Narratives, and her Positive Interconnectedness Model.
Solana is enrolled into the Nooksack Nation of the Chief Dan George Family and Mohawk from Bay Quinte, where the Peacekeeper was born. She is also of the White Owl House of the Wolf Clan. Her paternal association is Tsymsyan of the Violet Booth Family, Raven Clan. She is a mother of four and grandmother of two baby girls. Her children are also members of the Tlingit, Haida, Pawnee, Lakota and Dakota Nations. Solana graduated with honors in the field of Early Childhood Special Education. She then practiced as a perinatal, prenatal, and post-natal psychology practitioner; and lactation and birth-work educator. Naturally she’s a First Foods and “Mother’s Breath” advocate and Somatic Archeology and Generational Brain Spotting practitioner.
Solana is an Advocate of Sacred Principals: consultant for Tribal Whole-Health Care, Historical/Generational Trauma Recovery Training(s) for Health and Human Services, Native American and First Nation Tribes, Public Health Care Providers, private organizations, and Family and Survivor Violence Recovery Facilities. She aids in drug and alcohol recovery, peri- pre- and postnatal programs. She develops trainings for adult learners of historical traumas, diversity/equity/inclusion, bio-decoding, Mother’s Breath and Indigenous plant medicine (including entheogen species) advocacy.
Solana is a traditional and contemporary storyteller. She also teaches many modalities of art and helps create community gardens in local food deserts. Currently, Solana is soliciting legislation to re-reconcile with “Mother’s Breath” while finishing her Documentary “Native American and Alaska Native Birth Stories”.