Coastal root garden cultivation on the Coast Salish: The case of Tl’chés, Songhees First Nation territory.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Coastal root gardens are areas of coastal marshland from which First Nations people on the Northwest Coast of North America traditionally cultivated gardens of Pacific silverweed and springbank clover. These plants, and the productive ecosystems they inhabit, were carefully managed through a variety of methods such as weeding, transplanting, and tending to the soil. Though these garden sites have been the subject of limited study on the central and northern coast of British Columbia, they remain under-represented in our understanding of traditional Coast Salish eco-cultural management practices. Furthermore, there has been no systematic study of the ecological and archaeological attributes that might differentiate a cultivated and managed area from unmanaged sites. Bridging this gap, we have identified a possible root garden on the archipelago of Tl’chés, off the southern tip of Vancouver Island. In partnership with the Songhees First Nation, we combine archaeological, ecological and soil research to better understand this garden and its position within the larger Tl’ches biocultural landscape. The study of this site will expand understandings of Coast Salish cultivation practices and increase our ability to identify these fragile coastal sites in the absence of community or traditional knowledge, thereby promoting their re-integration within contemporary Indigenous restoration and management practices. Furthermore, by identifying archaeological and ecologically detectable attributes of coastal root gardens, we can further advocate for their protection under existing heritage legislation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".