Toward the 8th fire: The view from Oshkimaadziig Unity Camp
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Land is the basis of all life and is an integral object and objective of settler colonialism. As the Canadian state works tirelessly to ‘fill in the gaps’ – both historical and geographical – of its sovereign territorial rule, Indigenous land-based knowledges and existences are pushed further to the margins. And so, Indigenous land reclamations arguably pose an especially potent threat to the logics of settler colonialism by taking back land and providing the space to re-build and protect Indigenous life-ways. This conversational piece engages with experiences of the authors and the Oshkimaadziig Unity Camp – an active land reclamation in what is now called Awenda Provincial Park in Ontario – in order to illustrate how land reclamations both effectively challenge settler Canadian sovereignty and produce a new space within which alternative knowledges, cross-cutting solidarities, and decolonization efforts all co-emerge. Oshkimaadziig Unity Camp has carved out a space in which meaningful strides are being made to go beyond decolonization as a metaphor and encourage the embodiment of new anti-colonial relations between people (both Indigenous and settler) and the land.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".