Economic Development As If Culture Matters: Inuvialuit Wild Game Harvesting, Community-Based Economic Development, and Cultural Maintenance in the Western Arctic
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Abstract
Recent ecological and economic change has exerted profound pressures upon circumpolar Native peoples.For the Inuvialuit Inuit in the Western Arctic, the impact has been especially severe.Specifically, the Inuvialuit of Banks Island, Northwest Territories have witnessed an inversely-functional ecological relationship between Umingmuk (Arctic Muskoxen) and Tuktu (Peary Caribou): the intense population growth of the former has been linked to critically declining populations of the latter -the traditional staple of the Inuvialuit.Acutely dwindling caribou herd populations have required a virtual cessation of caribou hunting, with concomitant negative economic and nutritive effect.Moreover, following the European Parliament ban on the importation of wild fur in the 1980s and the declining export market for Inuvialuit Tiriganniaq (white fox) fur stocks, family cash incomes continued to decline, further eroding the self-sufficiency of Inuvialuit hunters and fur trappers.In response to tandem crises, current Inuvialuit subsistence on Banks Island is being drawn from muskox hunting, and for almost a quarter century a successful community-based project to harvest and market muskox meat, horns, hides, and quiviut (textile-grade soft body hair) for international export has afforded community-wide wage employment.Unique among development schemes in the Arctic, however, is the value that local and regional Inuvialuit political and economic agencies place upon not only the creation of much-needed local jobs and community cash-flow, but on specific strategies to successfully embed renewable resource development within traditional Inuvialuit culture.To date, muskox harvesting on Banks Island has supported the continuation of traditional patterns of community resource sharing, maintained the seasonality of renewable resource harvesting, and actively promoted the practice and preservation of traditional Inuit land-based skills and knowledge to a new generation of Inuvialuit.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 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".