Bibliographic record
Abstract
Robertson, Joanne. The Water Walker. Second Story Press, 2017.The Water Walker is the true story Nokomis (grandmother in Ojibwe) Josephine Mandamin, the founder of the Mother Earth Water Walkers. Nokomis and the Water Walkers’ goal is show how precious nibi (water) is to our very survival, and to ensure it is properly protected and cared for.Nokomis had always been thankful for nibi, but feels compelled to act when an ogimaa (a leader or chief) told her that one day “... an ounce of water will cost more than an ounce of gold.” What was Nokomis going to do about it? Gathering relations, friends, and community members, they form the Mother Earth Water Walkers, with the goal to protect and honour nibi. Between 2003 and 2009, the Water Walkers walk around the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, carrying a copper bucket of water and a bald eagle staff as they went. The Water Walkers expand their call, walking water from the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Gulf of Mexico. At the end of the book, while Nokomis rests after her all walking, she wonders what are you going to do about protecting nibi?This is an accessible and relevant story appropriate for both early and mid-elementary school children. Younger children will appreciate the vibrant illustrations, while older children will connect with the environmental message of the book. Ojibwe words are used throughout, and there is a detailed glossary and pronunciation guide to assist readers. Finally, there is contact information for Josephine Mandamin, so readers can share with her how they are conserving and protecting water. This book would do well in both public and school libraries. Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Andrea QuaiattiniAndrea Quaiattini is a Public Services Librarian at the University of Alberta’s JW Scott Health Sciences Library. While working as a camp counsellor, she memorized Mortimer and The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch as bedtime stories for the kids. She can still do all the voices.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.224 | 0.196 |
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".