Unsettling our family history: critical interventions in settler Canadian pasts
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Abstract
This article explores seven generations of our family's participation in settler colonialism at different times and in different places across Canada. The ancestors we focus on came to North America beginning in 1820, and serial waves of immigration from divergent branches of our family tree followed thereafter. For each generation, we investigate our ancestors' arrival on Indigenous lands, the histories of Indigenous presence on and use of those lands, the processes by which our relatives got access to that land, the impacts our ancestors' presence had on Indigenous Nations of those lands and the benefits our family experienced from Indigenous dispossession and settler colonialism. Informed by decolonial critiques and interdisciplinary scholarship on histories of family and colonialism, we piece together these narratives by drawing on archival and genealogical records, settler accounts, family stories and fieldwork. Using our family as a case study, we argue that adopting a critical approach to settler family histories helps challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, solidifies our understanding of the foundational violence of settler colonialism, and exemplifies the truth–telling that needs to come with settler reconciliation to Indigenous Peoples – a vital first step towards being able to recognize, live within and uphold Indigenous sovereignty.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 |
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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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