Indigenous Youth and Sport Participation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research aims to provide an overview of the research on Indigenous youth and sportparticipation. Indigenous youth in Canada may experience a variety of holistic advantages byparticipating in sports and physical activity. However, there is a need for a comprehensive bodyof evidence required to support sport participation among Indigenous youth, which couldfacilitate extensive benefits. The purpose of this research was to explore Indigenous youth’soverall experience during their participation in sport. The research recognizes the positivehealth and well-being benefits through the lenses of The Medicine Wheel including the mental,physical, emotional, and spiritual spheres of humanity. This research also seeks to answer thefollowing questions: (1) Why does sport benefit Indigenous youth? (2) What are the barriers tosport participation on and off reserves. The findings indicate that there are some existingIndigenous organizations in Canada that acknowledge that mainstream sports avenues often failto prioritize Indigenous needs and cultural practices. The limitation for on-reserve communitiesincludes restricted sport opportunities, local program and activities, lack of financial funds, andmany participants have lack of transportation due to living in remote areas. While off-reserveparticipants receive limited support, fear negative cultural representation, engage withmainstream sport organization and politics, and endure racism, they face limited support andfear negative cultural representation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".