Kelm's work has examined the impacts of colonization on Aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia. She is currently writing a book on rodeo as an example of Bhabha's 'third space' of cultural production. In this work, she examines rodeo as a medium for cultural articulation both for Aboriginal and non-Native people in ways that impact the binaries of 'cowboy' and 'Indian,' 'authentic' and 'appropriated' as well as those of gender. Her new research returns to medical history to study the production of knowledge about Aboriginal health over the course of the 20th century
