Aboriginal Traditions of Tolerance and Reparation: Introducing Canadian Colonialism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada is understood to have shed its colonial status sometime between Confederation and the Second World War, and the emergence of Canada's post-colonial state was definitely signaled by the repatriation of the Constitution in 1982. Aboriginal people, however, understand that colonialism is more than a matter of the political and legislative arrangements between former empires and colonies. On the ground, colonialism turns on the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples by settler societies. Aboriginal people in Canada have been and continue to be colonized, living in third-world conditions in the midst of a first-world country.As long as the displaced continue to live in poverty and despair, in shocking contrast with the displacers, or their place-holders, colonialism is alive and well in Canada. The transition to post-colonialism must be purchased by an acknowledgement of the Wrong of colonialism and reparation to the Wronged. In Canada, colonialism was facilitated by the refusal of Europeans to respect Aboriginal ideals of reciprocity and non-contradiction. Ethnohistorical evidence from the early encounter period demonstrates that current Canadian ideals of tolerance and pluralism were deeply embedded in Aboriginal societies. Judged by indigenous standards, the disrespect and interference which characterized Canadian colonization were clearly wrong. However, an exploration of the language and protocols relating to Aboriginal reparations can provide guidance to Canadians seeking a path to post-colonialism.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| 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".