Is Nativity Threatened by Drugs, Alcohol and Prostitution? A Retrospection of ‘Native-Girl Syndrome’ in Select Canadian Works
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada, the land of wilderness, has a history that is rich in culture, heritage, tradition, and spiritual practices. The indigenous people who have lived there for several centuries have been uprooted and alienated from their lands post colonisation. Outsmarted by technology and the ‘civilization’ of the colonisers, the once-majority of the indigenous people become minorities in their own country. Among the natives, indigenous women are subjected to all forms of violence and are left highly vulnerable at the hands of vicious colonisers. The native women have been forced to endure physical, mental, and sexual abuse, all of which goes against the values associated with them in a native community. The majority of the native women go through what is called the ‘native girl syndrome’ that draws attention to the aftermath of the above-mentioned malicious acts of subjecting them to drugs, alcohol, prostitution, and finally suicide. This concept is further illustrated by analysing three Canadian works of different genres – a novel named In Search of April Raintree, an autobiography named Halfbreed, and a play named In Care. The paper addresses how these literary works are representations of Native women who have endured all of these and more at the merciless hands of the colonisers, and questions whether the colonisers have succeeded in disrupting the nativity with their new interventions such as drugs and alcohol.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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".