The Power of a Single Feather: Meech Lake, Indigenous Resistance and the Evolution of Indigenous Politics in Canada
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Abstract
EnglishThe summer of 1990 was a pivotal moment for Indigenous peoples in Canada. That summer, Indigenous peoples expressed their resistance to colonialism through their key role in the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord and through direct action at Oka, Quebec. The effects of these events were felt in the inclusion of Indigenous organizations in the negotiation of the Charlottetown Accord, the recognition of the inherent right to self-government, the establishment of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples, and the regular inclusion of representatives ofnational Indigenous organizations in meetings with premiers and first ministers today. As the memory of that period faded in the public consciousness, so too did the momentum to address Indigenous aspirations for greater inclusion in the structure of the federation. This article explores how the Meech Lake Accord provided a trigger for a wave ofIndigenous resistance to the colonialism of Canadian constitutionalpoliticsandthe implications ofthat resistance for national politics andAboriginal policy. It also explores how the momentum of that period faded and raises the question of what could lead to a renewal of the momentum that existed in the aftermath of the summer of 1990. francaisL'ti 1990 fur un moment central pour les Autochrones du Canada. Cet iti-la, le peuple autochrone a manifesti sa risistance au colonialisme par le biais du rle cldi qu'il a jou dans l'dchec de lAccord du lac Meech et son action directe h Oka (Qudbec). Les efersde ces ivinementssesontfaitsentir dans l'inclusion d'organisations autochrones lors des negociations entourant lAccord de Charlottetown, la reconnaissance du droit inhirent h l'autonomie gouvernementale, la crdation de la Commission royale sur les peuples autochrones ainsi que l'inclusion rigulibre de reprisentants d'organisations autochrones nationales aux rencontres des premiers ministres. Cependant, au fur et h mesure que le souvenir de cette piriode s'effaa de la conscience publique, I'llan i aborder les aspirations autochtones a une meilleure inclusion dans la structure de la fiddration seffaa igalement. L'auteur examinera la fafon dont lAccord du lac Meech a dilenchi une vague de risistance autochrone au colonialisme de la politique constitutionnelle canadienne ainsi que les implications de cette risistance pour la politique nationale et autochrone. L'auteur examinera igalement comment le dynamisme de cecte piriode s'est efact et soulivera la question suivante : qu'est-ce qui pourrai mener h un regain du dynamisme qui existait t la suite de l'iti 1990?
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".