A Unity of Varied Particulars: Land, Language, Politics, and History in Finding Common Ground
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Abstract
This theme issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies grew out of the first Grand River Forum, held at Wilfrid Laurier University Brantford in October 2010. For this and other reasons soon to become clear, the reader is encouraged to take E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (1861-1913), as this volume’s poet laureate or presiding spirit. Tekahionwake means “double-life” in Mohawk. She was a travelling minstrel, troubadour, or wandering poet who would wear Indigenous dress in her performance’s first half, and an English drawing-room gown after intermission; the hiatus allowed her to change identities, yet paradoxically she remained the same person, thus troubling her audience’s sense of White and Mohawk as opposite identities. Born into a traditionally elite family on the Grand River at Six Nations, Johnson died far away in Vancouver. Chiefswood, the house in which she grew up, had two front doors, one facing the Grand, the region’s lifeline and thoroughfare for millennia, and the other the Brantford-to-Caledonia road, a newer route that was increasingly well-used. Her grandfather’s family had moved with other Iroquois east from what is now upstate New York after the American Revolutionary Wars; as Native peoples, the Johnsons were relative newcomers to the Grand River region. As Christians who saw negotiation and accommodation with Anglo-Canadian society a necessary if entangled path, they were also outsiders of questionable loyalty to traditionalists among the Six Nations. Johnson learned the art of oratory from her paternal grandfather Sakayengwaraton, Chief John “Smoke” Johnson, a gifted speaker who told the old cycles of songs
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.052 | 0.095 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.029 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".