Self-Determination and Indigenous Women: Increasing Legitimacy through Inclusion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Indigenous advocates have been pushing for the recognition of the right to self-determination. These claims to exercise the right to self-determination have been met with resistance by some Indigenous women and organizations because colonization was a gendered enterprise and, thus, had differential impacts on Indigenous women. This article highlights the differential impacts of colonization on Indigenous women and the reactions from Indigenous organizations, both which contribute to Indigenous women’s concerns on whether they will benefit from expressions of self-determination. The article then provides an overview of the right to self-determination, explaining its genesis and its relevance to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Finally, the article concludes by presenting factors for assessing legitimacy as a framework to promote the inclusion of Indigenous women in expressions of self-determination. The article asserts that including Indigenous women in the process and in addressing Indigenous women’s particular political, social, cultural, and economic development is the only way for decolonization to fully occur.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".