From Struggle to Success: The Osoyoos Indian Band’s Journey into Agritourism and Economic Prosperity
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Abstract
Summary In the province of British Columbia, Canada, the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) employs agritourism, specifically wine tourism, to serve their community economically and socially. Once on the verge of bankruptcy, they are now one of the wealthiest First Nations in the country, and their participation in the wine industry has played a critical role in this transformation. The OIB has been involved in the wine industry for over three decades. Beginning in 1968 with only 200 acres of vineyard, they currently own and operate one of the largest vineyards in the Okanagan Valley, and an award-winning winery Nk’Mip Cellars – the first Indigenous-owned and operated winery in the world. The winery was part of a broader development plan called the Nk’Mip Project. The project encompassed various planned developments, including the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre which acts as a value-added attraction for those tourists visiting the winery and its vineyards. Economic self-sufficiency through economic development projects is the core belief of the OIB. Chief Louie says that their band has always had a business culture and they have continued to evolve. These developments have allowed the OIB to diversify its revenue streams, protect its lands, and promote its culture and history. Information © The Authors 2023
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".