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Record W280497059

Death and Life in the Canadian Arctic: Baffin Island, Canada

2000· article· en· W280497059 on OpenAlex
Leslie P. Fairfield

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueAnglican and Episcopal history · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicIndigenous Studies and Ecology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArcticGeographyFjordPopulationArchaeologyOceanographyShorePhysical geographyGeologyDemography
DOInot available

Abstract

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St. Luke's church in Pangnirtung, Baffin Island is one of fifty congregations in Canadian diocese of Arctic, a vast territory some 2,000 by 1,500 miles that stretches from Yukon in west to Davis Strait facing Greenland in East. Since 1999 diocese has comprised three Canadian jurisdictions, new Inuit homeland of Nunavut in northeast, Inuit portion of arctic Quebec called Nunavik, and mostly aboriginal Indian Northwest Territory. About half of congregations in diocese are in Nunavut, in communities ranging in population from 4,200 in Iqaluit, capital, to 148 in Aujuittuq on Ellesmere Island in north (the name means the place that never thaws out). Nunavut is roughly size of California in area, with a mostly Inuit population of 25,000. There are a few trees in very southernmost part of Nunavut, but otherwise land is barren rock and snow in long winter-September to June-and barren rock with grass and arctic flowers in brief summertime. The village of Pangnirtung (locally known as Pang) is on shore of a forty-mile-long fjord running north from Cumberland Sound across from Greenland. The village stands on a narrow shelf of rock next to fjord, with mountains behind it rising abruptly to 3000 feet. The houses are mostly prefab wooden structures, imported on supply boat that comes each year in August. The local people buy packages at reasonable rates and men from village put them together. A gravel airstrip bisects village, with three or four commercial flights a day when it's not snowing or fogged in or too windy to land. Some 1300 people live in Pang, 90% of whom are Inuit. About half of population are under 15. There is an elementary school, a high school, and a branch of Arctic College that is headquartered in Iqaluit some 180 air-miles to south. A number of native workshops in Pang produce beautiful prints and soapstone carvings and embroidered clothing, sold in (i.e., Montreal and Toronto) by Inuit cooperatives. In wintertime there is ice-fishing in Cumberland Sound, 20 miles south by skidoo (sled), and some years catch runs over 100 tons. The frozen fish go out by commercial planes to Japan and other worldwide markets. But most of families also fish and hunt for their own consumption as well. Caribou, whale, and arctic char are staples in local diet, though food with astronomically high sugar content is available at northern store. There is also a tiny Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise (the chicken tastes suspicious). Although traditional ways of life persist, and older people go out on land to hunt and fish whenever they can, culture has hammered Inuit community. Every house has a television, and a huge satellite dish brings in many channels (including programming from Iqaluit in Inuktitut, native language, to be sure). Since mid-1980s drugs have ravaged village-too easy to conceal from Mounties who used to meet every arriving plane. And anyway, enterprising dealers can make it to Iqaluit by skidoo in two days during winter and bring back a rainbow selection of pharmacopeia. There are periodic episodes of teen suicide in Pang. Young people are expected to learn old ways-but why go out at 40 below when you can smoke and do drugs and watch TV at home? And although Inuktitut is language of instruction through elementary grades, whole system-tardy bells, homework and headlearning rather than watching Dad fish-is very daunting. Many children decide very early that they cannot manage, they'll never finish school, and they will never have a job. There have been Christians in and around Pang for almost a hundred years. Elders in village remember a woman named Assivak who was a strong evangelist in early 190Os. They tell how Assivak lived in hunting camps as a little girl with her family, on southern shore of Cumberland Sound, across from Pangnirtung fjord. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.267
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it