Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the profound interconnections between the Arctic Refuge coastal plain and Gwich’in communities across northeastern Alaska, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. Since time immemorial, the Gwich’in have depended upon the Porcupine caribou herd for their cultural, spiritual, and nutritional sustenance. The Gwich’in describe the Arctic coastal plain—the calving grounds of the Porcupine herd—as “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.” This chapter considers their connections to the caribou in relation to the history of colonialism, including Gwich’in struggles against proposed mega-projects on both sides of the U.S./Canada border. In particular, the chapter highlights the fight against the Rampart Dam in Yukon Flats, Alaska, during the 1960s and against the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in northern Canada during the 1970s. It also explains the impact of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, which was led by Thomas Berger, on Indigenous lands claims agreements in Canada, including the founding of Ivvavik (previously Northern Yukon) and Vuntut National Parks. Finally, the chapter includes some discussion of the US-Canada border and the ongoing effort of the Gwich’in and their allies to protect the Arctic Refuge and adjacent areas as a transnational ecological space.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.003 |
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".