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Record W4413908215 · doi:10.1075/sin.28.08man

Indigenous living traditions as institutionalized practices in urban Native organizations

2025· book-chapter· en· W4413908215 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in narrative · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsSt. Francis Xavier UniversityMount Allison University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousNative americanSociologyGeographyPolitical scienceAnthropologyEcologyBiology

Abstract

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Abstract In order to understand the complexity of the term Indigenous traditions from grassroots perspectives we propose the need to look at them as lived experiences, not frozen in time but responding to contemporary needs. Consequently we look at how, in Canadian urban centers, Indigenous traditions are living experiences that contribute to Indigenous identity revival. Indigenous cultures are strong and vibrant in vindicating their traditions and identity albeit, with new meanings and interpretations. Here we illustrate how Native organizations, through the work of their Indigenous leaders, Elders and key community members guide the process of institutionalizing Indigenous traditions in urban areas (specifically in Southern Ontario). This in turn, contributes to a greater extent, to understand Indigenous identity revival in urbanized contexts. By using the term Indigenous traditions we acknowledge the terminology employed by academia and some Native organizations in as much to refer to traditions and teachings practiced and learned as a lived experience. Our analysis is based from the fieldwork conducted by Manzano-Munguía from 2005 to 2008 in London, Ontario (see for details Manzano-Munguía, 2009). It included semi-structured interviews among and between Indigenous people residing in urban centers ( n = 10), as well as participant observation during different gatherings in urban Native organizations.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.865
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.390
Teacher spread0.335 · 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