Bibliographic record
Abstract
If you were to describe Tom Porter as a writer to his face, he would probably laugh. That is, in part, because the several books he's written were largely dictated by him or drawn from his speeches and interviews with him over the years. Despite his deep well of wisdom, Tom doesn't regard himself as an educated man. In fact, some of his writings describe in great detail his struggles within a Eurocentric education system that regarded his people as worthless savages and led to his leaving that system before high school. He might be happier to be described as a keeper of oral traditions, a storyteller whose words are at times funny and even corny, at other times deeply philosophical, and at all times filled with messages that we human beings need to hear. He would also probably laugh because laughter always seems to come easily to him. He recognizes it as a sacred gift. All of that is obvious in the following quote from the chapter entitled Turtle Island in his 2006 book Kanatsiohareke: Traditional Mohawk Indians Return to Their Ancestral Homeland:. When you read this Iroquois Mohawk Creation Story, I hope that you will bear in mind that all races of the world have Creation stories. This particular one belongs to the Mohawk. Creator gave it to us. It is not a garage sale or second hand story; it is Mohawk through and through. Sometimes, it is funny and hard to believe. If it is funny, then laugh. one thing I ask you to do is realize that the Creation Story of all races of People throughout the world are equally as funny and hard to believe as well. When human beings laugh, the Creator is pleased. (Porter 2006, 12) It also may make clear to you another aspect of Tom Porter as storyteller, as elder, as wise teacher and, yes, as writer. He has the sort of down-to-earth humility that only those who are sure of themselves and their beliefs can show. Few people are as respected as Tom is by the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee--or Native American and other indigenous people in general throughout the world. It is no wonder that his Mohawk name Sakokwenionkwas means The One Who Wins. A director and teacher at the Akwesasne Freedom School, he held the title of chief for 21 years among his Akwesasne people before moving to the Mohawk Community of Kanatsioharkeke, that he established in 1993 on 332 riverfront acres near Fonda, New York. Even before his adult years, I've been told, people would come to listen to this boy who spoke like an elder. Cataloguing his many accomplishments would take far more space than I have in this column. So I'll only mention two more things. first is his role as the organizer of the White Roots of Peace several decades ago. objective of that group, a traveling multimedia collective, was to revitalize Native traditions and beliefs in North America. As its main speaker, Tom lectured at universities and colleges all over the US and Canada. second is his work as the Native American consultant for the New York State Penitentiary system, where he served as Chaplain for all the Native inmates in New York's prisons. …
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".