Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Walking pilgrimage is growing in popularity. Initiatives to create routes on Canadian soil raise an important issue: how should local pilgrimage reflect Indigenous history and concerns? As First Nations leaders point out, all Canadians are 'treaty people' (i.e. on one side or the other of historical agreements concerning land). They call for Canadian academics and artists to help raise awareness of a suppressed history and of its ongoing, and devastating, consequences. Despite this, First Nations and Métis groups are often ignored in Canadian pilgrimage discourse. The North West Mounted Police (NWMP) Trail is a 300-km track across the northern Great Plains. It was roughly parallel to this route that the first recruits of Canada's military force marched west in 1874 to establish a police presence on Canada's western frontier. The story of their nearly disastrous trek, while not as well known as it might be, is none the less celebrated (Wilson, 2007, p. 248). What is less well known is that the NWMP Trail quickly became a crucial east-west thoroughfare through the contested border territory. The now hidden ruts once served as a significant Métis commercial route. They saw political deal making that was crucial to Canada, the USA and to the First Nations caught between them. They served as the trajectory along which some of Canada's first refugees, the Lakota, were pushed out, as Ottawa used starvation to clear the plains and to prepare for European settlement. Re-walking the NWMP Trail as a pilgrimage is one way of remembering this path's underappreciated role in the making of Canada. Because 'space' becomes 'place' by means of the stories we tell (Sheldrake, 2005, p. 495), an NWMP/Lakota/Métis Trail pilgrimage is one modest contribution to the widespread and growing recovery of an alternative Canadian, and Indigenous, history and culture.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.064 | 0.046 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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".