Kihtê-ayâwak Wasawakasihk: The Old Ones at Wasawakasin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis was a multipronged Indigenous archaeological investigation of the historic region downstream from the village of Sandy Bay, a community in northern Saskatchewan, of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, to document and understand the ancestors who lived nearby. This study included a contextualizing archaeological overview of the previous archaeological findings in the region, to lay out the culture history, and demonstrate the cultural link between the people who live there today and the pre-contact inhabitants of this region. Further, Elder interviews were conducted to illuminate some of their rich knowledge of traditional life-ways and historic practices, passed down from ancestors, as recognition of the strong lineages of knowledge that are maintained within the community. An archaeological survey of a historic habitation area on the east bank of Wasawakasin Bay was conducted, to demonstrate an anchor place where such traditional practices were exercised and lived. A synthesis is made, in the form of a short story, to garner a more humanistic understanding of ancestors who lived in that area during the historic fur-trade era, one which centers the inherited knowledge of descendants as crucial direct information to understand that history. The findings and interpretations, though constrained by the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, point towards a more humanistic way to understand the ancestors who lived in that area.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".