"It's exhausting to always be self-editing": The importance of culture and social support in the health of Métis peoples
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Metis Peoples, recognized Indigenous Peoples in Canada, are distinct from other Indigenous Peoples with unique histories, culture, and traditions. Historic and ongoing colonization and assimilation policies and practices negatively affect mental, physical, emotional and social health of Indigenous Peoples. These impacts on Metis Peoples, specifically, are unclear, but health impacts and experiences appear to differ from First Nations Peoples' experiences. purpose of this narrative study was to understand Metis adults' experiences of culture and social support with regards to their health and well-being. In partnership with Saskatoon Metis Local 126, 21 adults (11 males and 10 females, 29.83±10.52 years) participated in conversational interviews and photovoice reflections. These participants' stories, recorded and transcribed verbatim, enabled subsequent reflexive thematic analysis to make meaning of the experiences shared. Five themes, supported by photographs, were created to represent the importance of culture and social support to Metis Peoples' health: (1) Community: The foundation health and wellness was built on; (2) The Metis Person: Identity, acknowledgement and acceptance; (3) A balancing act: Choosing the safer role; (4) Being comfortable and vulnerable at the same time: Connections to the land and nature and; (5) Education and cultural enlightenment: The new form of Metis resistance and healing. These findings support culture and social support as health protective factors important in facilitating positive health outcomes and lifestyles for Metis Peoples. Supporting and facilitating Metis Peoples' health requires awareness of Metis identity complexities, and enabling spaces and communities where expressing identity and practicing traditions are culturally safe.Acknowledgments: This research is funded by Heart and Stroke, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".