“Giving Them Back Their Spirit”: Multiculturalism and Resurgence at a Metis Cultural Festival
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Abstract
Metisfest was a large, annual festival that—from its conception in 2006 until its cancellation in 2013—brought the Metis Nation together through fiddling, jigging, and other cultural activities. While the event was constructed as apolitical, Metis elder Duke Redbird suggested in We Are Metis that cultural activities can, in fact, bring about political change because they are non-threatening to the dominant culture (1980: 48). This essay addresses this seeming contradiction, arguing that while the event adopted the language of multiculturalism (i.e., language that is non-threatening to the Canadian mainstream), in practice, Metisfest used an Indigenous-centred approach to cultural celebration—an approach that prioritized Metis resurgence. In this way, Metisfest accomplished important political goals.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it