Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1781 Michel Brisbois watched a colorful ceremony take place at Mackinac Island situated between the upper and lower Michigan peninsulas. The twenty-two-year-old fur-trade clerk from Maska near Montreal looked on as British Governor Patrick Sinclair presided over a council in which Meskwaki leaders formally approved the multi-ethnic commercial center 500 miles away at Prairie du Chien and confirmed the community’s right to occupy nine square miles of ground located just north of the junction of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. Representing the Prairie’s Creole residents, three French Canadian fur traders thanked the Meskwakis and gave them numerous trade goods in payment. Brisbois was surely paying close attention and understood the layered realities evident as the council proceeded. This ceremony affirmed (as Prairie du Chien residents would later explain) that the Meskwakis were the “rightful owners of the soil,” but also recognized that they had been colonized by the French, who in turn had lost a war with the British. Thus the three French Canadian representatives tacitly acknowledged the hegemony of the British while gaining the public permission of the Meskwakis, preferring the British over the United States as the Revolutionary War inflamed the tense Ohio country to the east. And Sinclair’s participation meant that the British government had no objection to the existence of this Creole fur-trade town. However, the British control over the upper Mississippi Valley was weak at best. The ceremony took place at Mackinac Island rather than at Prairie du Chien because British officials generally avoided the region west of Green Bay due to Native hostility.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
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".