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Aboriginal Identification in North American Cities

2006· article· en· W302434668 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Craig Proulx

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian journal of native studies · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobalization and Cultural Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdentification (biology)Identity (music)InvisibilitySociologyEthnologyHumanitiesGeographyPolitical scienceArtComputer scienceEcology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract / Resume identification processes in cities framed through relatively recent identity theory on self-identification and discursive identification are major concerns of this paper. The challenges involved in identification from across North American cities through controversies over culture specific versus pan-Aboriginal identification, traditions, authenticity and self-identification versus community acceptance are probed. Also investigated is how identification is affected by stereotypes, gender, rural/urban churn, imposed invisibility, inter-generational and mixed blood issues. Without denigrating difference approaches to identification, this paper promotes an identification approach (Schouls 2003) to understanding how in cities identify. Le present article traite principalement des processus d'appartenance a la population autochtone dans les villes, dans le cadre de la theorie relativement recente de l'identite sur l'auto-identification et sur l'identification discursive. Il examine les problemes de l'identification dans les villes nord-americaines en traitant des controverses portant sur l'identification fondee sur la culture particuliere contre l'identification panautochtone, ainsi que sur les traditions, l'authenticite et l'auto-identification contre l'acceptation sociale. L'article examine egalement comment l'identification subit les effets des stereotypes, du sexe des personnes, des deplacements entre la ville et la campagne, de l'invisibilite imposee, ainsi que des questions transgenerationnelles et de metissage. Sans denigrer les approches differentielles a l'identification, l'article fait la promotion d'une approche d'identification (Schouls 2003) pour comprendre comment les Autochtones urbains s'identifient. Introduction Groundbreaking research on central issues and lacunae for understanding in cities across North America has taken place over past five to ten years by small number of scholars across various disciplines.11 discuss key area, identity construction, within current discourse on experience in North American cities. Where relevant, I use my fieldwork with Community Council Project (CCP), an diversion2 project in Toronto, to provide ethnographic insight into this issue. Before proceeding some definitional matters must be addressed. Many people including myself have used Aboriginals to describe or differentiate them from reserve, reservation or rural peoples. This rift is not clear cut because urban and rural flow repeatedly to and from both contexts. Hence, 'Urban' is not a kind of Indian. It is a kind of experience, that most people today have had (Straus and Valentine 2001: 86). Using one generic term is confusing and ambiguous (Fixico 2000: 29). DicksonGilmore and LaPrairie (2005:25) discuss different types of urban areas and different sizes of urban populations making any policy talk about the urban issue difficult at best. I will, therefore, speak of experiences in cities rather than using problematic urban Aboriginals. secondly, at times word Indian is used while at others Aboriginal peoples is utilized. This reflects a divide between American and Canadian usage both in academia and across North America. I also use in Canadian context in order to encompass widest variety of identities from (both status and non-status) to Inuit/Innu to Metis. It is important to note that I am in no way trying to control or appropriate how any individual, group or community defines identity for themselves. I am simply offering a set of concepts to think through, sets of issues that affect identity and how these need to be taken into account when analyzing processes of identification. …

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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)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.625
Threshold uncertainty score0.745

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.351
Teacher spread0.324 · 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 designQualitative
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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Published2006
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