Beyond the Divide: The Use of Native Languages in Anglo-and Franco-Indigenous Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Eight plays by Yves Sioui Durand, Tomson Highway, and Floyd Favel all demonstrate the powerful impact of language in theatre by repositioning the debate between the two so-called official languages of Canada and putting Aboriginal languages at the fore. Sioui Durand, a French-speaking Huron-Wendat, uses French, English, Spanish, Mohawk, Innu, Attikamek, Huron-Wendat, Ojibwe, and the Nahualt dialect of the Aztec language. Similarly, Highway uses Cree, his mother tongue, as well as some Ojibway-Anishnaabe in The Rez Sisters (1988) and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989), while Favel uses Cree in Governor of the Dew (2002) and All My Relatives (2002). Speaking in an endangered language is political and resistant; it also allows for greater ease and power of expression. Although Durand’s approach is pan-Native, encompassing many different Indigenous languages and cultures, while Favel and Highway deal specifically with Cree, all three playwrights succeed in decentring the power of the dominant languages.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".