Indigenous Embodied Activism and Memory Politics for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aims to understand material and symbolic communication approaches surrounding Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), and the Indigenous and feminist memory work to honor MMIW. Indigenous women and girls in Canada have gone missing and have been murdered at six times the rate of their non-Indigenous counterparts. First Nations and Indigenous communities in Canada have engaged in protests and memory activism to raise awareness of violence against Indigenous women and seek increased support from the criminal justice system. Following an Indigenist and decolonizing memory work methodological approach developed by Gail Baikie (Inuit) and the rhetoric of survivance of Gerald Vizenor (Anishaabe), we analyze the Search the Landfill current protests at the Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg police reported they believe four MMIW women’s remains are in the landfill. The study is vitally important as these protests and Indigenous advocacy efforts have never been analyzed and efforts continue to unfold. Analysis centers on public discourse on MMIW, counter/memory resistant efforts, embodied activisms of the protestors, efforts to silence and—literally—bury MMIW, and an understanding of how memory activism can amplify hushed narratives and energize counterattacks against erasures of memory.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".