Bibliographic record
Abstract
ERASMUSW hen one considers the material consequences of Canada's century-long policy of state-sponsored, forcible assimilation, a simple fact emerges: for generations, opportunities to live well as an Aboriginal person have been actively frustrated.Successive governments, committed to the notion that Aboriginal cultures belong only to the past, have made no provision for the well-being of these cultures in the present and future.In the arrangement of Canada's social affairs, only the assimilated Indian has been offered even the prospect of wellness.For those who resisted or refused the benefits of assimilation, government policies assured a life of certain indignity.That is the essence of life in the colony: assimilate and be like us or suffer the consequences.But to go on blaming government for our problems is, as we know, to stop short of solutions.Canada has responsibilities, articulated in treaties and in other formal agreements with Aboriginal people.Canada furthermore has a role to play in the present work of healing and reconciliation.However, our healing and well-being are and ought to be our own responsibility.What Wilfred Pelletier wrote of freedom is true also of wellness: "It is not something government can give you.Government does not have it, you have it, and when you realize this you exercise it responsibly" (No foreign land 1973, 149-50).The task of securing our well-being and that of our children is the ultimate task of our cultures.As noted in one of the contributions to this volume, "culture is treatment, and all healing is spiritual."For many years now, Aboriginal people have been on a healing journey.We began to address the conditions of our communities even before the demise of the governmentmanaged Indian residential schools.Focusing on addictions and a renewed commitment to traditional Aboriginal teachings, the healing movement in its early days embraced a holistic view of individual and community wellness.Perhaps the most dramatic example of community healing to date has been Alkali Lake (Esketemc First Nation), in British Columbia.The return of this society from a state of near-universal addiction became the subject of a video, The Honour of All: The Story of Alkali Lake.The case of Alkali Lake, which achieved a 95% rate of sobriety, demonstrates hope and potential when even one dedicated person is committed to the goal of community wellness.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.745 | 0.707 |
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".