Honouring the Spirit of the Late Dudley George: Reviewing Ipperwash Inquiry Recommendations
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Abstract
The events leading up to Dudley George's death illustrate the problematic relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples. In particular, the loss of land, loss of connection to the land and the loss of sacred burial sites has created a disturbance.\nThrough the enactment of legislation such as the War Measures Act, the government asserted control over Ipperwash lands. My Ipperwash research was conducted collaboratively with the family of Dudley George. As community members, the George family share their experiences with colonialism, displacement and the impacts thereof; this research is driven from a community-based approach and will help to ensure the needs, impacts, concerns, values and voice of the community is being heard. In working with both the George family and Dr. Beverley Jacobs, this research also explored the impacts of media on Ipperwash events. It will examine inter alia: How powerful is media? How does media narrate Indigenous issues? How does the media frame Ipperwash and Indigenous issues? What are, if any, the responsibilities of the media and/or its representatives? Why do we still see sport teams with names and logos like the Tomahawks which continue this narrative of the lawless “Indian”? Why does the “cowboy” vs. “Indians” narrative continue to emerge?\nIt has been over 25 years since the Ipperwash crisis which resulted in the death of Dudley George. Yet, Indigenous Peoples remain resilient as strong land defenders attempting to navigate the difficult relationship with the colonial state. Media plays a powerful role in society and it is integral to explore the depths of this power as it relates to Indigenous Peoples, their communities and their territories.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".