Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian Natives were robbed off of their lands and lifeways by colonial policies and laws. As a result, they were pushed to the fringes politically and socially. The colonial government and Canadian government have always tried to assimilate them so that Natives could be remembered as an extinct people. But Natives have survived the onslaughts of colonisation and have retained their distinctiveness as a people. In theatre this distinctiveness is established through the presence of the Trickster figure. Tomson Highway was the first playwright to introduce the Trickster figure in his 1986 play The Rez Sisters and since then the Trickster has appeared in all forms of Native literature so much so that the enacting of the trickster on stage is a belligerent cry of the Natives of their indelible presence. This chapter discusses the laws that exploited the Natives, history of Native theatre, and analyses the Trickster in the play The Rez Sisters . The paper concludes that the Trickster introduced in The Rez Sisters has brought back the Trickster from the realm of extinction and has initiated an appeal for Native literature among the people.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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