7. Some Adverse Effects of Historical Trauma on Indigenous Communities
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Abstract
Chapter 7 presents an investigation of the deleterious effects of historical trauma on Indigenous wellbeing. De facto, psychological pain shifts the weight of identity from the ‘Us’ component to the ‘I’ component. One of the effects of historical trauma is the destruction of the traditional means of pain treatment. In their absence, by diverting resources to pain alleviation, an increase in historical trauma reduces the individual contributions of Indigenous community members to collective activities. This leads to an inferior equilibrium where family and community outcomes are worse in the short run. In the long run, the reduced communal contributions erode the sense of belonging that characterizes many Indigenous communities. This further worsens outcomes. The model shows how and why the causal effects of historical trauma are durable: they do not diminish over time. It is seen that high levels of historical trauma can lead an Indigenous community to get stuck in a ‘bad’ equilibrium in which individual, family, and community outcomes are extremely compromised. The model reveals why colonization casts a long shadow and why Indigenous communities still have to struggle with the consequences of past events. Added to these outcomes are the effects of the ongoing colonization that undoubtedly exists but which the model is somewhat less equipped to formally capture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".