Mohawk Thanksgiving Addressca. 1451
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Thanksgiving Address is an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) expression of gratitude that acknowledges connection to all beings. The address is known to have existed at the latest since the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy—perhaps around 1451—when its ritual use was established by the Peacemaker, but it was likely passed down through oral tradition for untold centuries before. The word Haudenosaunee means “the People of the Longhouse” (or, technically, “They Are Building a Longhouse”), and it is the name of a confederated group of six (originally five) Native American nations, including the Mohawk. Longhouse refers to the characteristic structures in which they lived—immense rectangular structures made of logs that housed numerous families. The longhouse was more than just a shelter; it became a metaphor for the cultural and social values of the Haudenosaunee. The Haudenosaunee recite this address at the beginning and at the end of any important gathering of their people, whether the event is religious, political, or social. It can be recited in any one of the Haudenosaunee languages or even in English, when English is the primary shared language of those gathered together. Among Mohawk of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, the Thanksgiving Address, some form of which has been in use for at least a thousand years, is called “Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen,” which means “Words before All Else” or “Words That Come before All Else.” This refers to the practice of reciting the Thanksgiving Address at the beginning of a gathering, before events commence, and at the end of a gathering, before the people depart.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.221 | 0.067 |
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".