Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Concise History of Canada's First Nations. Olive Patricia Dickason, adapted by Morira Jean Calder. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006. 387 pp. incl. list of National Historic Sites of Canada Commemorating Aboriginal History, glossary, web sites, notes, index. $49.95 sc. Although purported to be the fourth edition of Olive Dickason's watershed work Canada's First Nations, except for some of its contents, this book bears little resemblance to the original volume. Written at a high school level and for a lay audience, the book will hopefully realize record sales in an entirely new social sector. If the new format assures a wider reading audience, all will be well. Dickason's work deserves to be read by all Canadians. of the highlights of the new format include an extremely attractive cover of a painting (Loon Family at Sunset by Samuel Ash), photographs, maps, drawings, shaded boxed bits of relevaSnt information, lists of important names and terms for each chapter, and recommended readings. text is clear and the language straightforward. Appropriately inserted time lines help the reader decipher exactly where the information being presented fits into the broader picture of history. A Concise History of Canada's First Nations contains seventeen chapters. first is aptly titled At the Beginning (chpt. 1), and it ends with The Road to Self-Government. Between those chapters, the reader learns about such phenomena as Some Amerindian-Colonial Wars (chpt. 4), The 'Indian Problem': Isolation, Assimilation, and Experimentation (chpt. 9), The First Numbered Treaties, Police, and the Indian Act (chpt. 11), and Canadian Courts and Aboriginal Rights (chpt. 16). final three chapters on northern development, Aboriginal rights, and self-government provide up-to-date information about these important developments. establishment of Nunavut in 1999 coincided with the centenary of the signing of Treaty Eight and revealed the emergence of new strategies on the part of northern First Nations. Their sense of revitalization motivated them to demand full partnership when negotiating land settlements and discussions pertaining to economic development. Further south, the origin of the warrior movement that highlighted the Oka tragedy underscored the fact that First Nations are a political force to be bargained with. As proof of Aboriginal persistence, it should be noted that it took almost 200 years to negotiate and ratify the Nisga'a Treaty, and the decision to accept oral history as evidence in court helped conclude the matter. …
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.066 | 0.015 |
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".