Indigenous Writing and the Residential School Legacy: A Public Interview with Basil Johnston
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Throughout his prolific literary career, Anishinaubae elder, orator, and teacher Basil H. Johnston has advocated passionately for Indigenous cultural revitalization in Canada. Several of his fifteen English-language books facilitate the endurance of Anishinaubae worldview by examining the social, political, and spiritual traditions of the Anishinaubaeg. Avoiding the hyperbole often associated with the residential school system (by both its proponents and its critics), Johnston has acknowledged that “you can’t credit [residential] schools with everything, nor can you blame [the] schools for everything.” During his interview with Sam McKegney, Johnston discusses his book Indian School Days and comments that “the healing has to come from inside, from ourselves.” He also promotes txhe Anishinaubae tradition of teaching duty and responsibility along with rights.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.060 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".