Postindians and Reservation X : individualism and community sovereignty in contemporary North American First Nations arts discourse
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The goal of this project is to consider the works of Gerald McMaster (Cree), an artist, curator and catalogue essayist, and Gerald Vizenor (Anishnaabek), a fiction and non-fiction writer as well as literary theorist, as methods for understanding and responding to Aboriginal demands for sovereignty, especially as re-presented in artworks and arts discourse. Their perspectives have been influenced and contextualized by postmodernism, and reflect two dominant strands within that field of thought: one which retains its connection to modernism in its search for meaning, and the other which denies meaning or truth though connects with modernism's focus on individuality. Ultimately, however, my intent is to recognize McMaster and Vizenor as word warriors for First Nations communities, to consider their, ideas as methods which relate postmodern theories to Aboriginal demands for sovereignty to artworks, and through my own engagement to contribute to the further dissemination of their work.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".