“The Sunday Flag Is Up!” Western Arctic Aboriginal Cultures and the Sports of the Fur Traders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This paper examines processes of cultural contact and change in the Canadian western Arctic resulting from the dual impacts of the fur trade and of missionary activities between 1850 and 1940. The traditional games and dances of the Teetł’it Gwich’in, a regional band within the larger Aboriginal group of Athapaskan cultures, and the dances and sports of the fur traders, assumed an important role in the mediation of intercultural tensions arising from the realignment of pre-existing interregional Aboriginal relationships. These tensions had the potential to escalate into open conflict during the great fur trade meetings of early summer, when members of different Aboriginal groups gathered at the trading posts. Here, Gwich’in traditional games were for the first time brought within the range of organizational and expressive effects of modern sports, then in their incipient form. The traditional games remained an important element of the trade gatherings well into the twentieth century, when intensifying processes of cultural transformation, accelerated by the decline of the fur trade economy, led to an increasing dominance of modern sports among recreational physical activity practices in the western Arctic.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".