Self-made rebel or exploited instrument? : Sitting Bull's paradoxical role in native American cultural history 1877 - 1890
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This master's thesis primarily deals with the stereotypes associated with the famous Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man and tribal chief Sitting Bull.It strives to account for all of his different portrayals, interpreting his position in the Native American cultural history 1877 -1890 by taking into account various discourses.Throughout the thesis two important concepts are questioned: How is 'the Native American symbol' Sitting Bull perceived and portrayed?How does the non-Native discourse '(mis)use' his image?Arguing that the symbolical image of Sitting Bull was largely exploited not only by both the Federal government of the United States and the Government of Canada respectively, but also by the powerful individuals around him, this master's thesis therefore aims at the reconstruction of his above-mentioned stereotypical portrayals, while defining the actual scope of such well-calculated manipulation.Misusing Sitting Bull as a persona non grata on all levels in order to politically or personally profit from the troublesome situation 'his Sioux group' found itself in after the famous Battle of Little Bighorn, all the above-mentioned parties that were involved in his case were in fact motivated by their own strategic interests, seeking status and credit rather than offering selfless help to the discredited Sioux.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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