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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the concept of the special relationship between First Nations and the Crown through the evolution of political relations between the colonial state and Indigenous communities in the Province of Canada from the 1840s to 1860s. It explores how this special relationship is linked with the evolution of the Department of Indian Affairs, and the way it was transposed into a new policy based on the protection and civilization of Indigenous people. A comparative study of petitions addressed to the Crown by Innus of the Kings Posts and Anishinaabe on the north shore of Lakes Huron and Superior, this dissertation examines the political discourse and the power dynamic that emerged between the centre of the state administration and Indigenous communities on the margins of colonial space. Faced with increasing pressures of colonial expansion, these communities mobilized a political discourse based on the special relationship with the Crown in order to spur state action and negotiate their integration within the colonial space to preserves a nation-to-nation relation. Revisiting the evolution of Indian policy and the role of the governor after the adoption of responsible government, this thesis sheds light on the reasons why two different approaches regarding 19th century land claims were adopted in each section of the Province of Canada. Finally, it deals with political action and Indigenous resistance to the policies and laws put in place by the colonial state at the turn of the 1850s-1860s, as well as their opposition to the transfer of the Department of Indian Affairs from London to the colony. In doing so, it demonstrates that the communication channels maintained by the First Nations through petitioning opened a space to put forward discursive forms of resistance to colonial policies, but also to participatewithin the limits of their exclusion from the political sphere, to the redefinition of Indian politics in the middle of the 19thcentury.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".