More than Where the Heart Is: Meeting Places in Wabanaki Poetry by Cheryl Savageau and Mihku Paul
Bibliographic record
Abstract
New kinds of meeting places in contemporary Indigenous writing from the East emerge in creative writing by Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) and Mihku Paul (Maliseet). The reimagined personal, family, and community stories in their poems include Indigenous perspectives on Canadian-American migrations, interracial relations, and the displacement of Indigenous languages by French and English. The attention they pay to the effects of colonial and neo-colonial realities is counterbalanced by instances of resistance and resurgence in their writing. Both poets are mixed-blood women born in the 1950s, living in the United States, possessing ties to Canada, and engaged in dialogue with other Wabanaki writers and community members. The author’s approach to their work is indebted to received traditions as revisited by three Indigenous academics—Abenaki writer and scholar Joseph Bruchac on survival strategies, Abenaki literary historian Lisa Brooks on the gathering place, and Cherokee literary historian Daniel Heath Justice on concepts of kinship. Collectively, these poets and essayists illustrate what settler scholar Siobhan Senier refers to as the continued presence of Indigenous Nations in Atlantic Canada and New England.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| 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".