Book Review of: McLeod, Darrel. (2018). Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
DarrelMcLeod's book, "Mamaskatch," tells a brutally honest, first-hand account of the consequences family and, in the broader sense, society has on the development of individual identity.In his recollection of events, Darrel recounts the residual and internal strife his mother, Bertha, had experienced following residential schooling.Forced to learn that her Cree identity was wrong through the indoctrination of Catholic values, Bertha went through a systematic annihilation of belief.The fallout from this experience diminished confidence in her world, blurring the boundaries between right and wrong creating a crisis of identity not only for Bertha, but for her children as well.Growing up with the same Catholic ideals imposed on him, Darrel experiences shame and guilt associated with his Cree status.With family and culture as a major contribution to identity, Darrel experiences difficulty in establishing his own as he comes to terms with his gender identity and sexual orientation, which work in opposition with his Catholic ideals.Inadvertently, a lack of belonging emerges for Darrel leading to the isolation he experiences for the majority of his young adult life.In his search for freedom of identity, Darrel aims to end a cycle of violence, a struggle that many Indigenous Peoples face.A major theme emphasized in this book is the family and how it comes to impact an individual's identity.In reference to Bertha's residential schooling, Darrel indicates how physical similarities being "the same smooth brown complexion and deep brown eyes; the same jet-black
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.153 | 0.086 |
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".