Silent Diplomacy: Wendat Boys’ “Adoptions” at the Jesuit Seminary, 1636–1642
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Abstract
In 1636, the Jesuits opened an all-boys seminary school for Wendat children just outside of Quebec. The Jesuits hoped to use the school as a tool of conversion, with the expectation that students would then return home to Wendake to bring others to the Catholic faith. While the Wendat agreed to send a few of their children to the school, their goal was to facilitate a friendly relationship between the Wendat and the French. This diplomacy was conducted through the lens of adoption. While at the seminary, the boys engaged with their French educators: they seemed to convert to Catholicism and they adapted their behaviour to match French expectations, as if they had been adopted by their Jesuit instructors. However, upon leaving the school, many reverted to more traditional Wendat practices, indicating their acculturation was a temporary, but practical, means of affiliating themselves with their Jesuit allies. Individual stories from three students are highlighted to illustrate the significance of the youths’ agency, adaptability, and use of kinship relationships to facilitate a diplomatic bond with some of the early French settlers.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".