Being Cree in the 21st Century Through Language, Literacy, and Culture: Iyiniwoskinîkiskwewak (Young Women) Take on the Challenges
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Abstract
In the 21st century in western Canada, the Cree Language faces the risk of obsolescence (Canada, 1996, 2002). Few children learn the language as their mother tongue; some schools offer Cree classes but primarily as a core second-language class, and children are not becoming fluent speakers. The development of immersion models is central to the retention of the Cree language if it is to survive through this century. This study is about Iyiniwoskinîkiskwewak (young women) who are taking on their own journeys as language warriors (Alfred, 2005) with the assistance of Elders and fluent speakers at the Alliance Pipeline’s Young Women’s Circle of Leadership (APYWCL) summer camp. In this short eight-day program at the University of Alberta, young Aboriginal women explore the Cree language, traditional values, women’s roles and leadership, and contemporary skills, such as in drama and digital technology. In this paper we will illustrate how this summer program and the women who work in it assist the young women in their fight to regenerate themselves and their people culturally and linguistically. \n---- \nAu 21e siècle dans l’Ouest du Canada, la langue crie est confrontée au risque d’obsolescence (Canada, 1996, 2002). Rares sont les enfants qui apprennent le vernaculaire comme langue maternelle; il y a des écoles qui offrent des cours de cri mais principalement comme cours de langue seconde, et les enfants n’arrivent pas à parler la langue couramment. Le développement des modèles d’immersion est essential à la rétention de la langue crie si on veut assurer sa survie jusqu’à la fin du siècle présent. Dans cette étude, il s’agit des Iyiniwoskinîkiskwewak (jeunes femmes) qui font leurs propres parcours comme guerrières de langue (Alfred, 2005) grâce à l’aide des Anciens et des locuteurs qui parlent la langue couramment au camp d’été appelé Alliance Pipeline’s Young Women’s \nCircle of Leadership (APYWCL). Pendant ce court programme de huit jours à l’Université de l’Alberta, de jeunes femmes autochtones explorent la langue crie, les valeurs traditionnelles, les rôles des femmes et le leadership ainsi que des compétences contemporaines telles que le théâtre et les technologies numériques. Dans ce papier nous illustrerons comment ce programme d’été et les femmes qui y travaillent aident les jeunes femmes dans leur lutte à se régénérer et à régénérer leur peuple culturellement et linguistiquement.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".