A Relational Confluence: Sugpiat and Dena’ina Histories of Remembrance in the Native North Pacific
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Abstract
The histories of the Native North Pacific, particularly those of Sugpiat and Dena’ina along Alaska’s southern coast, flow together like the region’s waterways. These Peoples’ navigations through their historical memories all center relations to places, seasonal activities, and knowledges often discounted or minimized in settler histories of ‘Alaska’ and ‘Alaska Natives.’ This dissertation examines Sugpiat and Dena’ina historical relations with and remembrances of Russian, British, and other European expeditions, not just relaying exact recollections but recounting conditions and experiences before and since these events. Examining interactions and experiences from the 1760s to the 1850s, the following five chapters examine Native North Pacific knowledges, commentary, and remembrance. Chapter 1 juxtaposes the testimony of Sugpiaq Elder Arsenti Aminak with Russian accounts of eighteenth-century invasions of Qik’rtaq [Kodiak] by centering Qik’rtarmiut storytelling and seasonal relations. Chapter 2 examines Captain James Cook’s journal from his Third Voyage along with crewmates’ accounts concerning their relationships with Dena’ina alongside Dena’ina perspectives of these interactions. Chapter 3 investigates Russian colonialism and British expeditions in the 1780s to articulate Sugpiat and Dena’ina navigations of these changing circumstances through their own relations and knowledges. Chapter 4 turns to another British voyage, George Vancouver’s in the 1790s, to investigate British modified perspectives concerning Russians and Alaska Natives as the former expanded into the Native North Pacific. Chapter 5 returns to Aminak’s testimony, proposing his recollections also articulated perspectives of subsequent Qik’rtarmiut experiences under Russian colonialism surrounding whaling, missionization, and movements. By recentering Sugpiat and Dena’ina relations, knowledges, and perspectives of this period, this dissertation unsettles historical presumptions of Alaska Natives before the 1867 US Purchase Treaty.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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