Part 4 of the 2019 SBS #DowntownLectureSeries : Animalities Speaker: Kelsey John
Channel: Mindfulness with Horses
Date: 2022-12-16

Part 4 of the 2019 SBS #DowntownLectureSeries : Animalities
Speaker: Kelsey John

For the Navajo (Diné), horses are knowers who can promote healing within their communities. Inspired by her own experiences riding and training Navajo horses, Kelsey John, a postdoctoral fellow in American Indian Studies, reveals how horses teach us to relate to each other, the land, and other nonhuman animals.


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Kelsey Dayle John (Diné) is a Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Her work is centered on animal relationalities, particularly horse/human relationships as ways of knowing, healing, and decolonizing education. Alongside her work in Indigenous animal studies, Kelsey’s research interests also include: Indigenous feminisms, decolonizing methodologies, and Tribal College and Universities. She finds her theoretical locations within transnational feminism, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, Diné Studies, and foundations of education. 

Previously, Kelsey taught in the Diné Studies department at Navajo Technical University on Navajo Nation. For her dissertation research, she worked in partnership with her community to think about how horse knowledges and relationalities can help improve Navajo tribal university research and outreach. As a Ph.D. student, she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. In her community, Kelsey organizes an annual Horse Conference to promote dialogue about the sacredness of horses and to connect tribal universities with the community.

In her spare time, she runs with her dogs and works with her horse Bambi. She is a Navajo language learner and horse trainer often helping with her family’s ranch in Colorado.   
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Dans le cadre de ses activités, et avec ses membres,  l'association applique un code éthique, et notamment pose les bases du respect et de l´éthique nécessaire pour le respect du bien-être animal et des êtres-humains, entre autres l'apprentissage des principes de  l’intelligence émotionnelle,  la mise en valeur de l’empathie, de la  communication, de la coopération, du développement des compétences sociales. Dans le cadre de ses échanges interculturels autour des cultures du cheval, l'Association   applique sa Charte Ethique. 

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L’association favorise toute activité connexe ou annexe nécessaire à la réalisation de son objet statutaire, notamment, mais non limitativement, la composition et l'impression de brochures d'information,  la réalisation de films et documentaires, leur projection et leur promotion, l'organisation de journées associatives et de voyages d'études réservés aux adhérents.