# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Helen Lee Turner, “Disability and Personhood among the Navajo People”
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: On Thursday, March 26 at 6:00 pm in the Harkin Institute (2800 University Ave), Dr. Helen Lee Turner, Professor of Religion at Furman University, will lecture on “Disability and Personhood among the Navajo People.” 

For those wishing to attend the lecture virtually, please sign on here at least five minutes in advance: https://drake-edu.zoom.us/j/85200467120.

A Navajo (Diné) medicine man summarizes Navajo perceptions of disability and difference in the following way: “Before the white man came, we were blind [to disabilities]. You brought us the gift of sight. I think we were happier when we couldn’t see.”  The Diné have no word for “disability.”  Long before people with physical or intellectual limitations began to challenge the perspective of ableism seen in modern medicine and culture, the Navajo believed that no one should be autonomous.  Indeed, relationships, even dependent ones, are necessary for health in the Navajo culture. This presentation will focus on traditional Navajo views of relational accountability that prioritize the integration and caretaking of disabled members of the tribe and challenge the understanding of personhood and self-actualization and even the standards of what it means to be healthy in most of modern America.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/des-moines/helen-lee-turner-disability-and-personhood-among-the-navajo-people/200029752415155
- **Event Categories**: contests, health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Des Moines
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Harkin Institute
- **lat**: 41.601862120049
- **long**: -93.656854083995
- **full address**: The Harkin Institute, 2800 University Ave,Des Moines, Iowa, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Helen Lee Turner, “Disability and Personhood among the Navajo People” being held?
  - **A:** Helen Lee Turner, “Disability and Personhood among the Navajo People” takes place on Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at The Harkin Institute, 2800 University Ave,Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Helen Lee Turner, “Disability and Personhood among the Navajo People”?
  - **A:** Helen Lee Turner, “Disability and Personhood among the Navajo People” is organized by Comparison Project at Drake University.

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