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Mohkinstsis (Calgary) 1988

2025· book-chapter· en· W4414470402 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Christine O’bonsawin

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Illinois Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies of British Isles
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnvironmentalismSafeguardingIndigenousTreatyIndigenous rightsOpposition (politics)HarmRedressEnvironmental law

Abstract

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This chapter revisits the organization of the 1988 Calgary Olympic Winter Games in a period of increased Olympic environmentalism and activism by providing a historical overview of the emergence of Olympic environmental concerns, particularly as they relate to the Winter Games. This chapter underscores the three decade–long opposition to hosting the games, premised mainly on ecological concerns, criticisms, and activism, in Calgary and the surrounding regions. Seemingly absent from environmental advocacy efforts were Indigenous peoples. Although Indigenous peoples bear a disproportionate share of environmental burdens, they possess unextinguished environmental rights through treaty guarantees, confirming the implicit right to conservation in their territories and, at the very least, prohibiting environmental harm severe enough to threaten their survival. In the Mohkinstsis (Calgary) context, this includes Treaty 7 (1877), which protects the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Stoney-Nakota, and Tsuu T’ina peoples and territories from environmental degradation, safeguarding their traditional ways from non-Indigenous erosion, ensuring their lifestyles and practices will be forever protected. This chapter transposes Indigenous treaty rights discourse into Olympic environmental discussions, arguing, in the case of Calgary, Olympic opponents failed to recognize the robust legal rights, and thus ecological protections and rights afforded to Indigenous peoples, which may have served to not only bolster the anti-Olympic campaign but to further support environmental and sustainability efforts throughout the region.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.813
Threshold uncertainty score0.578

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1730.030

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.170
Teacher spread0.143 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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