Susan Elaine Gray. I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940.
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Abstract
The dynamics and legacies of cultural change are germane to any discussion on the history of education.Does cultural contact invariably result in the insoluble collisions of world-views, or can imported ideas mingle with indigenous ones, so as to complement, rather than supplant, traditional life-ways?Are smaller, traditional societies inevitably doomed to be crushed in an avalanche of noxious institutions that originate at a distance -in the mother country, colonial metrople, or increasingly, through the crush of massmediated hegemonic messages?Does cultural change not only modify what is learned, but how?In addressing these questions, I Will Fear No Evil challenges common assumptions that First World colonialism has been (and remains) a unidirectional, inevitable, and comprehensive juggernaut of forced assimilation.That view is replaced with Susan Gray's model of post-contact cultural blending, parsimonious social change, and the selective acceptance and incorporation of 'new ways' by Indigenous peoples.Indeed, she posits that an understanding of selective syncretism-where intersecting cultural elements become fused into emergent meanings and expressions, different from both of the original, singular traditions -offers us insight behind the webs of negotiation, arbitration, and accommodation experienced by both colonizer and colonized in frontier settings.Set in the traditional territory of the Berens River Ojibwa (Saulteaux) on the Canadian Shield in central Manitoba over the two generations following the negotiation and implementation of Treaty Five in 1875, the present work documents a wide range of social changes in Aboriginal lives.Chronologically recording transformations in the political, economic, and social life of the community, I Will Fear No Evil opens with a comprehensive ethnography of life before and following Euro-Canadian contact.These changes, often rapid, dramatic, and tragically prime examples of revolutionary ethnocide, also
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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.
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