Kinship Relations and Decolonial Solidarity in Chelsea Vowel’s Métis Futurism
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Abstract
This article explores two short stories by Métis writer Chelsea Vowel, “Buffalo Bird” and “Maggie Sue,” from her collection Buffalo Is the New Buffalo (2022), focusing on principles of kinship relations present in various Indigenous cosmologies. These involve relations with nonhuman animals, the land, and natural forces, and I argue that such notion of kinship can be crucial for decolonial manifestations of solidarity. Where Euro-Western conceptualizations of solidarity seldom extend beyond human relations, decolonial solidarity guided by kinship principles will most effectively uncover histories, past and present, of colonial oppression and violence against Indigenous peoples and land. This will also contribute to the creation of worlds otherwise, like those (re)imagined in Vowel’s stories, where Indigenous lives may thrive.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.002 | 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.
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