Living and Dying mno bemaadiziiwin: Wearing Our Teachings in Contemporary Times
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Abstract
Wearing, or operationalizing, cultural teachings during this time of a global pandemic is crucial to Indigenous spiritual health and overall well-being. The Big Sickness has impacted collective spiritual practices and gatherings. It has prevented us from being present with family and community members in times of illness, disrupting our caretaking responsibilities, and our assistance with and witnessing of death. Yet, public health restrictions have also provided opportunity for biskaabiiyang: physical isolation has catalyzed a pause in our collective and personal day-to-day lives, and has provided opportunity for us to turn inward, reflect, and to return to ourselves and ways of knowing. This article shares foundational teachings of the Anishinaabe People; teachings that guide us in the living and dying of mno bemaadiziiwin, the Good Life. These teachings situate the life and death journey of Anishinaabe persons within the Anishinaabe cosmos, and articulate our practices of relationality, responsibilities, and ways of knowing that are essential to this journey. Biskaabiiyang, returning to ourselves, with agency and wearing our teachings can support individual resilience and survival.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".