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Record W4417132551 · doi:10.17953/a3.25347

Living in an Eel’s World

2025· article· W4417132551 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kristi Leora Gansworth

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Indian Culture and Research Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCorporate governanceIndigenousKinshipColonialismReflexivityFraming (construction)PopulationRelevance (law)

Abstract

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The global decline of anguillid eels is well-documented across all continents where nineteen related species migrate. In North America, the population decline (and in some cases, extirpation) is related to numerous factors including industrial development. Eels experience violent mortality and migration barriers which have been linked to extractive infrastructure affiliated with settler colonial land occupation. The intricate migration pattern of Anguilla rostrata (American eels) is one of those species, an ecologically significant fish that has ancestral and persistent relevance to First Nations and tribal nations in Canada and the US, respectively. This paper draws from Anishinabe ontological grounding including intergenerational dodem gikendaasowin (clan or kinship knowledge) to suggest that humans are living in a world that includes an aquatic governance mediated by eels. A primary contribution is the suggestion that attention to such framing has applied relevance to intergenerational land-based healing, for extension of ongoing pursuits including Indigenous environmental justice, water governance strategies, and renewed interspecies relations. The application of these nascent concepts affects possibilities for current and future generations to exert reflective capacity and advocate for greater decision-making in matters of water governance. This paper suggests these opportunities be afforded to inheritors of ancestral Anishinabeg legacy dispersed throughout areas in Anishinabe-aki, where eels have resided and migrated and may do so again; to survive, eels benefit from informed policy and governance practices that facilitate physical assistance. New regimes may be built from human reflexivity and the desire to give back to life, an inherent principle of Anishinabe water governance and the application of Nibi Inaakonigewin (water laws).

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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)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.022

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.028
GPT teacher head0.418
Teacher spread0.390 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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