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Record W4411128301 · doi:10.18061/dsq.v44i3.7336

Indigenous Leadership and the Canadian Disability Movement

2025· article· en· W4411128301 on OpenAlexfundaboutno aff
Walter Wai Tak Chan

Bibliographic record

VenueDisability Studies Quarterly · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersIndigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
KeywordsIndigenousMovement (music)Political scienceSociologyArtBiologyAesthetics

Abstract

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This paper looks at how people conceive of Indigenous disability and disability activism in the Canadian disability movement and in Indigenous organizations. Our central question is: How do Indigenous organizations and Canadian disability rights organizations think about Indigenous disability issues? We carry out an analysis of the reports and literature regarding thirteen (13) disability rights and Indigenous organizations. We find confusion about definitions of disability, a lack of disability services in First Nations and in the North, and the extreme marginalization of Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA peoples with disabilities. We also find non-Indigenous disability organizations to be quite silent about Indigenous disability–with a few rare exceptions. The implications of Indigenous leadership for both the disability movement and for the broader issue of truth, healing, and reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous communities are explored at the paper's end. We conclude the disability movement should listen to Indigenous communities and knowledge holders. Disability rights organizations can seek to be evaluated on their practices, like a student on a field placement, in a process of decolonial and Indigenous evaluation within a framework of Indigenous relationality (Rowe, 2022).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.299
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.014
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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