Bibliographic record
Abstract
Transformations of oral traditions In September 1838, Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby), an ordained Ojibway Methodist minister, presented a petition to Queen Victoria from chiefs of the Mississauga Ojibway community at Credit River, where he had lived with his mother for the first fourteen years of his life. The petition asked that the Credit River community be granted the title deeds that would ensure their lands could never be taken away. Kahkewaquonaby had written the chiefs' message in the roman alphabet, and they had signed it pictographically with their clan emblems. Attached to the document were some strings of wampum that Kahkewaquonaby read for the queen, as well as delivering his own oral supplication in support of the chiefs' request. Consisting of three forms of writing, and two kinds of oral utterance, the petition was a multimedia event, not merely a written text that could be trusted to speak for itself. Kahkewaquonaby's bodily presence, dressed in buckskin and moccasins, was necessary to authenticate and authorize the petition, to witness that it had been received, and to guide the queen's interpretation of the document in a manner most likely to ensure a favorable outcome for the Credit River Ojibway community.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.009 |
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".