Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of the many negative effects of colonization in North America is the epidemic of suicide infecting Indigenous youth; in Canada, First Nations youth living on reserve are five to six times more likely to commit suicide than is average for the general population. This paper examines the depiction of suicide in two Nêhiyawi (Cree) comic books: Darkness Calls by Steven Keewatin Sanderson (2006) and 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson (2012). The formal conjunction of oral and graphic storytelling in these two works emphasizes the necessity of bringing Nêhiyawi history and tradition into the contemporary world, and the interrelation of the two genres parallels the relationships between community and individual that are inherent to health. Just as the graphic novel form interacts with oral storytelling, adding new dimensions, but not replacing it, so the strength of the individual draws from and contributes to the strength of the nation. The comic books work not only through overt anti-suicide messages but also through storytelling strategies that connect the present to ongoing traditions, graphic novels to oral storytelling, and individual autonomy to community strength.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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".