Refashioning Mi’kmaw Narratives into Maritime Fictions: Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Frank Parker Day, and Alden Nowlan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, missionary Silas Rand worked with the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia. His two-volume collection, Legends of the Micmacs, contains 87 distinct stories, and these texts soon became important source materials for Euro-Canadian writers who were interested in telling stories about the Mi’kmaq people. Three Maritime writers attempted to tell tales from within an Aboriginal perspective: Theodore Roberts in The Red Feathers (1907), Frank Parker Day in John Paul’s Rock (1932), and Alden Nowlan in Nine Micmac Legends (1982). All three writers retell or refashion Mi’kmaq narratives, all three provoke questions related to the issue of appropriation, and all three advance their own imperial, colonial, or modernist perspectives as somehow innately part of the Maritime experience. Roberts’s imperial romance, Day’s realist-romance, and Nowlan’s modernist reshapings tell us a great deal about the shifting perspectives of Euro-Canadians towards Aboriginal peoples, as well as the shifting discourses that have confined Aboriginal communities.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| 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".