Knowledge Share Description
This presentation will look at equine histories from an Indigenous perspective. Human/animal relationships play a significant role in helping us understand our own worldviews, and the structures and ideas that restrict and color our interactions with the more than human world. Kelsey has been around horses her entire life and comes from a ranching and Navajo horsemanship background. Her and her family are particularly fond of Navajo mustangs and have been in community with them for years. Part way through her work in graduate education, Kelsey started daydreaming about horses and thinking about how horse knowledge has existed in her community since time immemorial. I believe that relationships with non-human animals have profound implications for learning, being in good relation, and embodying an interconnected, Native understanding of being. In Navajo history, equines and Navajos have been partners and weathered structures of colonialism together, finding power and healing in the connection.
Knowledge Share Includes
A brief overview of Indigenous perspectives in equine history
Thinking critically about popular equine histories
Understanding settler colonialism and its effects on human/animal relations in Tribal communities
Thinking critically about heteropatriarchy and its influence shared relations between humans, animals, and place
Cost
$35 - BIPOC or low income
$75 - standard or reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
The zoom link will be sent 1-2 days prior to the knowledge share. Recording will be available for 30 days.
For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Equine Relations
Accessibility Information
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
*Live captioning & ASL interpretation may be available with advance notice
*Spanish interpretation may be available with advance notice (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)
Virtual Gathering
Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share
5:00pm - 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.
Facilitator
Kelsey Dayle John is Diné, a member of the Navajo Nation. Her family is from Sweetwater, Arizona near the four corners. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Arizona with a joint appointment in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. She studies equine/human relationships with a focus on how these relationships decolonize and Indigenize education and research. She is particularly interested in the social, cultural, and historical narratives of equine/human relations. Kelsey is an Indigenous feminist and loves mentoring Native students. She is currently a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and is working on a book project about equine/human relationships in Indigenous methodologies titled With Horses. Previously, Kelsey taught in the Diné Studies department at Navajo Technical University on the Navajo Nation. She completed her Ph.D. in Education at Syracuse University. For her dissertation research, she worked in partnership with the Navajo Nation to document horse knowledges and stories for the development of Navajo education and research. Kelsey is certified in Equine Facilitated Learning through the HERD institute. In her spare time, she runs with her dogs Remi and June Bug and attempts to train her horses Bambi and Le Doux, but ends up mostly just hanging out with them.