Review of <i>Reservation X: The Power of Place in AboriginalContemporary Art</i> Edited by Gerald McMaster
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Abstract
The reservation (or "reserve" in Canada) is a place with multi-layered meanings to contemporary Native People. As editor Gerald McMaster states, "the reserve has been both sanctuary and prison." While symbolizing community, home, family and tradition, by its very nature (government imposed confinement) it simultaneously represents repression, poverty, and the social ills that follow. For a reader interested in the Great Plains, or any other region, Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art deftly illuminates these complex relationships through the work of seven artists and four authors. The volume's first half is devoted to thought-provoking essays by McMaster, also curator of the exhibition, Paul Chaat Smith, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, and Nancy Marie Mithlo addressing the themes of art and place. These include a consideration of the cultural implications of Native space from the Indian Rights heyday of the 1970s to the ill-fated efforts to bring Native issues to public attention in 1992 (Smith), and the conflicted discourse found throughout multiple forms of contemporary Aboriginal art, such as performance and literature (Townsend-Gault). Following the essays, the authors provide brief background sketches of the artists with critical analyses, including detailed colored photographs, of each work contributed to Reservation X. The artists-Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo), Marianne Nicolson (Kingcome Inlet), Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve), Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora Nation), Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo), Mary Longman (Gordon Indian Reserve), and C. Maxx Stevens (Seminole Nation}-explore their relationships with their reservation communities and the influence of these relationships on their identities as Native People. The appraisals are capped with excerpts from interviews with the artists addressing the themes of family, community, and identity. Six of the seven works rest primarily on installations. The exception, a film by Niro, Honey Moccasin, was represented by an installation of fancy-dance dress composed of breakfast cereal and tire treads. In the film story these creative regalia were used to replace stolen traditional bead and featherwork in an unnamed "reservation x," proving that the community's Indian identity could continue to exist.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.014 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.003 |
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".