Land-based spirituality among the Cree of the Mushkegowuk territory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article reports on findings from a research project investigating social, cultural, political, community, and spiritual impacts of a mining development sited in the Mushkegowuk territory of the coastal Cree people of western James Bay. When using a variety of indicators to explore how the negotiated agreement with an industrial proponent (diamond mining) was impacting community members, the threat to cultural lifeways and contingent spirituality as a result of land degradation was expressed by most participants in the study. While mindfulness, as adopted from the Buddhist tradition, denotes a very specific type of practice involving present-moment awareness, the breath, and body sensations, mindfulness in its broader definition refers more generally to a state of keen awareness. Across two phases of this research project, representing qualitative interviews with more than 50 participants, a picture of deep relationship and engagement with the land and its myriad life forms emerged, a picture suggestive of profound awareness, attunement, and reciprocity consistent with the broader definition of mindfulness. It is upon this land-based relationship that spirituality for the Mushkegowuk Cree people relies, and, as expressed by many study participants, the very core of their identity is founded on this form of spirituality.
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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 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".