Decolonization on the Salish Sea: A Tribal Journey back to Mormon Studies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Decolonization is vital to undoing the legacy of racism and colonialism in today’s world but is also challenging work that is tasking for the researcher and those with whom we work. This auto-ethnographic narrative offers important lessons for the decolonization of Mormonism. It highlights the experiences of Thomas Murphy as he has navigated the terrain of Mormon Studies early in his career, shifted focus to decolonization projects on the Salish Sea, and returns again to look at Mormonism anew. Murphy reflexively examines his own identity as a light-skinned Mormon raised with stories of Indigenous ancestry and the inspiration these gave for ethnographic fieldwork among Mayan, Ladino, Nahua, Zapotec and Coast Salish communities. He draws from his experiences on the Tribal Canoe Journey’s 2014 Paddle to Bella Bella, British Columbia in Canada to offer a vision for a decolonized Mormonism, one in which Indigenous sovereignty is respected and artifacts associated with the production of Mormon scripture are repatriated. In the process of decolonizing ourselves, he argues, we need to deconstruct Lamanite identity, reconsider our truth claims, and move Indigenous voices to the center of our analysis.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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.
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".