Letter From the Interior: James Teit and the "Injustice of Displacement"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Wendy Wickwire's recently published biography of James Teit, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging, she questions “the authority of mainstream history and historiography” to determine “who is celebrated and who is not and why” (22). Providing Teit a much-deserved and long overdue moment in the spotlight, the book aptly surveys his immeasurable contributions to the written record of British Columbia’s Indigenous people. Her observations on the questionable authority of history link directly to a case currently before the Supreme Court of Canada involving a B.C. Indigenous tribe – the Sinixt, or Arrow Lakes Indians. This tribe’s identity, sovereignty and aboriginal rights under Section 35 of the Canadian constitution have all been questioned for decades, as a result of their lack of status under the Indian Act following a 1956 Order in Council under the federal Indian Act declaring them extinct. This lack of bureaucratic status has served as an authoritative force that confuses and confounds the accuracy of Indigenous history in the southeastern corner of B.C., where Sinixt traditional territory is situated.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.017 | 0.017 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.005 |
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".