Moving towards reconciliation through sport: Sharing our process of exploring team saskatchewan experiences at the North American Indigenous Games
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Abstract
Unanticipated benefits emerge when Indigenous partners and academics come together to share project authority and knowledge. Drawing on examples from our research into Team Saskatchewan's experiences at the North American Indigenous Games, we highlight the impact that engaged methodologies can have on the research process and product. Working with and guiding the faculty researchers and student trainees on this project is a steering committee consisting of sport Knowledge Keepers and other Indigenous sport leaders. Provincial sport organization delegates and funders are also active contributors. The steering committee, along with project participants, sets research priorities, provides direction and assistance with methodology, and identifies integrated and end-of-project knowledge mobilization goals. Beyond one-on-one interviews gathering oral stories and lived experiences from Team Saskatchewan leaders and builders, our wholistically-informed methodology has organically led to conversational group interviews (Kovach, 2009) with Team Saskatchewan athletes, coaches, and organizers. The committee has also helped identify, collect, and examine manuscripts, documents, video archival sources, and sport equipment/memorabilia. Prior to contact, sport played an integral role in Indigenous peoples' culture and wholistic wellness (Heine, 2013), and today it continues to provide opportunities to share culture (Downey, 2018). We highlight ways that academics can respectfully share in reconciliation through sport by embracing the role of trustful allies who take their lead from Indigenous partners who are willing to share authority in a symbiotic relationship. Such relationships actualize research objectives by identifying novel and meaningful directions for project growth, and build both academic and Indigenous capacity through reciprocal knowledge transfer.Acknowledgments: Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame Sport History Project Grant
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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 | 0.021 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.031 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".