Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Spirit Gifting: The Concept of Spiritual Exchange , Elmer Ghostkeeper offers poignant insight into the ways that expanding capitalist modes of production have challenged the maintenance of Metis traditional ways of knowing, living, and being. Ghostkeeper situates his upbringing as being rooted in the maintenance of sacred and cyclical relationships with human relations, with the land as a relation, and within an ethics of kinship obligation to the land’s other, non-human, inhabitants. Similar discussions on Metis ways also appear in the stories of two other Metis people – Victoria Belcourt Callihoo and Herb Belcourt. Like Ghostkeeper, Belcourt Callihoo and Belcourt offer personal accounts of the transitions that they and their respective Metis communities have undergone as a result of the changing human landscape in what is presently, and most widely referred to and known as, Alberta. This paper thus begins with its own offering. In order to reciprocate and honour the gifts that they each give through sharing their stories, I share a bit of my story as a gift. I also do so to provide some insight into my investments in undertaking such writing and research. After doing so, I turn to reflect on Belcourt Callihoo, Belcourt, and Ghostkeeper’s articulations of Metis ways as living in a symbiotic relationship with the land. Then, with an emphasis on Belcourt and Ghostkeeper, I address the implications of the arrival of industrial capitalism to the authors’ lives and the impacts of this on the maintenance of what may be called their “Metis traditional knowledge” systems. Lastly, the paper argues that such stories should have greater influence in the political spectrum of Metis peoplehood and Metis political activism.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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".