Exploring the Meanings and Impacts of a Traditional Foods Program with Urban Indigenous Women in London, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract
As a corrective to historical and ongoing acts of dispossession, Indigenous peoples have engaged in processes of environmental repossession, which refers to various social, cultural, and political processes by which they are reasserting their relationship with their lands so as to create spaces of healing and belonging. Drawing on the Traditional Food Basket (TFB) program offered by the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) in London, Ontario as a case study, the purpose of this research is to explore how urban-based traditional food programing can support Indigenous women’s well-being in the city and strengthen their cultural identities. I undertook a community-engaged approach to qualitatively explore the meanings and impacts of SOAHAC’s TFB program among Indigenous women who took part in the program (n=19). Findings demonstrated that the food offered by SOAHAC were meaningful to participants as they represented themes of (a) pride, (b) love, (c) connection (to culture, ancestors, and homes), and (d) health. Interviewees also spoke about the varied impacts of the program on their lives as it (1) enabled the sharing of food with family, (2) supported health, (3) provided financial benefits, (4) supported connection to ancestors and cultures, (5) supported access, and (6) allowed for the discovery of new foods. Findings also suggested that urban Indigenous organizations are places that help to strengthen participant’s connection to their Indigenous identities by creating a sense of community, while offering culturally sensitive care and programs that allow for learning or re-learning about cultural practices. The findings from this thesis highlight the possibilities of urban environmental repossession.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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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