Saving A Vanishing Horse

Come and listen to our Host, Joyce Benning, as she chats with today's guest, Kimberlee Campbell, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.Kimberlee Campbell, Ph.D., is a co-founder of Grey Raven Ranch, a Canadian federal non-profit dedicated to preserving the Ojibwe Horse and educating the public about this Anishinaabe heritage breed. At Grey Raven, she focuses on breeding for healthy future generations and providing training for the ranch’s horses.A retired professor of Romance Languages, Dr. Campbell continues to teach at the Harvard Extension School. She also collaborates with Indigenous communities in Lakota country, creating classroom materials for Lakota language instruction and supporting teachers in developing their teaching repertories.She is the author of five books and numerous articles on both medieval literature and Indigenous language pedagogy. Her teaching has been recognized with the Mensa Foundation’s Distinguished Teacher Award (2004) and Harvard’s Carmen S. Bonanno Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Award (2014).She lives on Seine River First Nation in northwestern Ontario with her partner and Grey Raven co-founder, Darcy Whitecrow.We trace the near extinction and revival of the Ojibwe horse, from a runaway mare and a heartbreaking loss to a grassroots rescue across winter ice and a ranch built on granite and grit. Kim shares how science, Indigenous knowledge, and a network of women keep a rare breed alive and gentle.• Origins and traits of the Ojibwe horse• Anishinaabe partnership and winter work• Colonial policies and loss of mobility• Parks, poverty, and engines accelerating decline• The rescue of the last four mares• Cross-border stewardship and ranch creation• Genetics, e-clade DNA, and outcross strategy• Temperament suited for kids and elders• Women-led network sustaining the breed• An invitation to start anew through conservationFor more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com