Bibliographic record
Abstract
The title for this book is derived from a 1948 report in the Ottawa Citizen on the archaeological finds at the Great Fraser Midden in Vancouver, British Columbia: "Who were these mysterious people who lived long ago at Sea Island at the mouth of the Fraser River?… They were not Indians certainly." 1 In line with popular accounts of archaeological discoveries throughout the world, non-Native public discourses often framed descriptions of ancient history and human origins as a mystery to be solved.Such representations of the ancient or deep past also described the contemporary Aboriginal residents of this region as newcomers to the territory, a discourse that alienated the local Aboriginal histories of residency and mobility throughout the landscape.The notion of mystery, however, also suggests the shifting relationship in Coast Salish society between public and private knowledge.As many Coast Salish people have pointed out, some cultural and historical knowledge and experience is related to one's personal relationship with the ritual or spiritual world, for example, and is therefore not disclosed to or talked about with others."It is private and personal, or a family possession," explains Leona M. Sparrow of Musqueam.2 Keeping aspects of culture silent or inaccessible to outsiders allows sacred cultural practices to escape public consumption and the colonial gaze.Mystery, secrecy, and, at times, even obscurity can evoke a kind of power and resistance to colonialism.3 Thus the phrase "these mysterious people," while a part of the colonial language of displacement, also suggests this potential to remain unknown and elusive as, at times, a representational anti-colonial strategy.Today, the photograph of sisters-in-law Mary Grant and Mary Charlie posing with the ancient qəy' scam stone (on page xiv), complicates the Ottawa Citizen reporter's supposition that the ancient occupants of the Fraser River were "mysterious," meaning unrelated to the Aboriginal peoples of the region.The women's presence by the stone suggests instead that these "mysterious people" are well known within their communities, they have complex histories and relationships to place, and, regardless of the lengths of scholarly enquiry,
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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 | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.607 | 0.449 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".