Re-establishing innate connection to nature: an application of Indigenous ancestral practice in a new land-based learning centre on the French River
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Abstract
The common society is coming to the \nrealization that the earth can no longer sustain the \nhuman race if we continue to expropriate it in the \nmanner and velocity that we currently are. Unethical \nmining, fracking, mono-forestry, and factory farming \nare all symptoms of a greater problem; the blatant \ndisregard for the other living beings that accompany \nus on the planet. The question then becomes, how \ncan we as human beings re-discover our innate \nconnection to the natural world and therefore heal \nour relationship to the planet and ourselves? \nIn response, we need to alter our relationship \nwith ourselves and nature in order to prevent the \ncontinued exploitation of the world. We must \ngo back to the ancestral knowledge carriers: the \nIndigenous peoples of the earth, in particular the \nIndigenous peoples of North America, since it is their \nland in which we now live. We all at one point in \nour history had a connection to The Land through \nintergenerational knowledge passed down in place \nthrough our ancestors. It is now our responsibility to \nre-establish that connection to the land if we are to \nhave any hope in saving it. \nA return to the land is the answer to the \nfundamental change that we as human beings need \nto take in order to effectively take our place as the \ninstruments of great good for the ecosystems around \nus. Educational environments that focus on living \nwith the land need to be implemented at a greater \nrate and scale, and that is precisely what this thesis \nseeks to accomplish with the formation of a landbased learning centre. The centre will be placed along \na remote corridor of the French River and serve \nas a junction between the old world and the new, \naccessible through modes of transportation such as \ncanoe or car. It will sit on park land currently claimed \nby Parks Canada, juxtaposed with Dokis First Nation \nacross the river, while also being on the boundary \nlines of three city districts. The programs will consist \nof the collaborative efforts of the local Indigenous \npeoples from Dokis First Nation, the Maamwazing \nResearch Institute as the academic presence, and \nthe Ministry of Natural Resources as the Provincial \nGovernmental group. It will serve as a potential \nmodel for how local Indigenous groups, Academics, \nand Provincial Governments can co-operate and comanage together.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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".