Niitooii—"The Same That Is Real": Parallel Practice, Museums, and the Repatriation of Piikani Customary Authority
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, use of museum-repatriated ceremonial Bundles and associated knowledges, practices, songs and rights by Piikani people has also been aiding in the reconstitution of wider socio-economic, political, and authority practices. Related to this, attention is drawn to a specific Piikani Blackfoot trajectory of material-metaphoric action over an extended history of contact relations: that is, of making parallels. A Blackfoot term for this is Niitooii, "the same that is real." As in such Bundle-centred ceremonies as the Sun Dance, Niitooii makes things real because it mobilizes a complex of shadows, transferred rights, and the authority of people and things. Recent Piikani mediation practices parallel this complex against those in Canadian non-native civil and political society which similarly give authority and force to people. In effect, this has helped advance a collateral process of reconstitution: that of reasserting—or repatriating—customary practices of law and governance, which historically have been enacted through the authority of the Bundles themselves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.052 | 0.040 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".