Cultural Revitalization and Coming Home to Culture in the Anishinaabe context
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Abstract
This undergraduate honours thesis discusses the Anishinaabe context of cultural revitalization, specifically with the Chippewas of Nawash or Neyaashiinigmiing. This work is extremely important as we, in Canada, are now in a time of reconciliation. We, as Indigenous peoples, must reconcile not only with Canada but with ourselves. Coming home to culture means reconciling with ourselves and the shared histories of our communities. Likewise, Indigenous resurgence is important for upholding and ensuring the strength of our communities. It is time for healing and the only way to truly heal our communities is to heal ourselves and our kin. Anishinaabe communities and specifically the Chippewas of Nawash hold an extremely important place in my heart as they have given me the teachings and the support to engage and connect with community. Through visiting, sharing meals and spending time, I have appreciated being a part of this community. Anishinaabe communities are so rich, vibrant, and resilient as they have faced adversity and come out the other side. I am grateful to be a part of the Chippewas of Nawash community and am proud to call it my home. \n \nI discuss ‘coming home’ to culture as a central concept in my research. Coming home in this context means healing, healing spiritually, mentally, and physically. Coming home can mean a variety of things, for some, it is coming home to their community or territory, for others, it is coming home to ceremony, coming home to cultural teachings, or coming to sobriety. For each person, it is coming home to themselves in whatever way provides healing. There is limited research on coming home to culture, therefore, my work is a minor piece of what can be accomplished. My work is informed by a literature review and scoping review. I have analyzed sources from various Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors. I have tried to prioritize Anishinaabe-centric literature, however, did not discount various other accounts and perspectives across North America, Turtle Island. Throughout the literature, I found there were reoccurring themes that arose and from this found five keywords: resurgence, revitalization, ceremony, culture, and home. These keywords were vital to understanding coming home and cultural revitalization. \n \nI have been under the guidance of my Elder Miptoon Chegahno; he has acted as a Mishomis or grandfather to me, guiding me in a good way. He has been a teacher to me and informed much of this work. Miptoon has accepted me into the community and taken me on as a student. He has never failed to show me the importance of spending time, drinking tea, and going for walks to hear the birds. The teachings I am carrying forward create the idea of what it means to come home. I am grateful to be carrying his clan and the teachings that come with that. His teachings are central to this work and the conclusions I have drawn.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.038 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".