Playing the Creator’s Game on God’s Day: The Controversy of Sunday Lacrosse Games in Haudenosaunee Communities, 1916-24
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Abstract
During the late nineteenth century there was a growing movement in Canada led by Protestant denominations and their organization, the Lord’s Day Alliance, for the national observance of the Christian Sabbath. After several years, the Canadian government enacted the Lord’s Day Act in 1906, prohibiting non-essential activities on Sundays, including sports for financial gain. Sabbatarians across the Dominion attempted to enforce the Sunday law. In the Haudenosaunee communities of Ahkwesahsne and Six Nations, however, Sunday lacrosse games attracted thousands of paying non-Indigenous spectators and continued to take place “illegally” until the mid-1920s. The Lord’s Day Alliance, the attorney general of Ontario, and the Department of Indian Affairs attempted to enforce the law on the reserves. By examining the controversy surrounding the Sunday lacrosse games from 1916 to 1924, this essay demonstrates that the dispute was both a precursor to and a consequence of larger struggles over the future of self-determination in the communities. Furthermore, the struggle played into internal conflicts about Haudenosaunee governance and identity that were themselves triggered by assimilationist policies. It was hardly a coincidence that the dispute coincided with the Department of Indian Affairs’s forced removal of the hereditary council in Six Nations in 1924; rather, the lacrosse controversy was a significant incident in that series of events and provides valuable insights into the Haudenosaunee’s fight for sovereignty in the early 1920s.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".