The Wendat People: a self-designating community or a confederacy of nations?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the Wendat people, more commonly known as Huron, occupied a rather small territory along the eastern shores of Georgian Bay, in what is now Ontario. The Wendat society was organised in clans, villages, and nations, united in a confederacy. From 1649 onwards various forms of pressure caused the dispersal of the Wendats in new territories. Today, the descendants of the Wendats are divided in four nations dispersed in the USA and Canada. The Wendats who settled in the USA have become Wyandot/Wyandotte while those who remained in Canada have kept their original name. However, in 1999, the Wendat Confederacy was re-established on ancestral land in Ontario, as what can be seen as an affirmation of the persistence of a Huron community. After describing the cultural specificities of the Wendat at the moment of their dispersal, this paper will try to determine in what ways today's four Huron nations still form a community and why their leaders decided to re-establish the confederacy, thus raising questions concerning nationalism and territoriality in this particular context of a dispersed Amerindian people.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.012 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".