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Record W2944450112 · doi:10.7202/1058061ar

“A Scrap of the Savage”: E. Pauline Johnson’s Canoeing Journalism

2019· article· en· W2944450112 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jeffrey Swenson

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Canadian Literature · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScrapJournalismArtArt historyPhilosophyMedia studiesSociologyEngineering

Abstract

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We all have a scrap of the savage, a dash of the primitive man concealed about us somewhere -give it play, girls, at least once a year. . . .[J]ust try the old heathen etiquetteless life in a canoe for one summer week, you will be a more womanly woman for the quaffing of nature's wines in the wilderness.-E. Pauline Johnson, "Outdoor Pastimes for Women" (1893) hen E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) told the "girls"the female readers of Outing -that they should give a "dash of the primitive" play "at least once a year," she knew how hot and bothered men might be at the thought of "etiquetteless" women "quaffing . . .nature's wines in the wilderness."Johnson's seemingly contradictory message, one that promotes women's independence while titillating a male readership, shows a canny understanding of popular culture related to canoes and stereotypical conceptions of Indigenous peoples.While known for her poetry, Johnson was also a key figure in the canoe craze, a tide of canoeing popularity that surged in the 1870s and peaked in the 1920s.During the canoe craze, Americans and Canadians loved their canoes and made love in their canoes, and Johnson's essays about canoeing demonstrate a manipulation of the stereotypical "Native" resonance linked to the canoe in popular culture.Johnson used those cultural associations to act as an independent New Woman and skirt the edges of traditional gender expectations.Born in 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, to George H.M. Johnson, a Mohawk Chief, and Emily S. Howells, a white Englishwoman, Johnson spent much of her youth canoeing on the Grand River.She began publishing poetry in Canadian periodicals in the 1880s, and after a well-received 1892 recitation of her "A Cry from and Indian Wife" in Toronto, Johnson began touring under her taken Mohawk name "Tekahionwake" as an "Iroquois Indian Poet-Entertainer" who read "her own poems of Red Indian Life and Legends"

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.847
Threshold uncertainty score0.304

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0230.012
Scholarly communication0.0140.007
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.228 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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