Reflections on Indigenous Allyship: Perspectives from an International Student and Emerging Scholar
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper epitomizes my journey toward Indigenous allyship in relation to my lived experiences in Canada as a recently graduated international student and emerging community-based researcher. I reflect upon Tuck and Yang’s (2012) concept of ‘settler innocence’ where I position myself as an international student struggling to fully adjust to Canada’s socio-cultural sphere, but also as a settler scholar who often reverts to my academic niches to resume colonial occupation of research processes. Additionally, I share some challenges and insights of working across epistemological differences during my research intern in Baawaating. Such experience has at time engendered my feeling of inaction and fear of cultural appropriation. However, through stepwise community engagement, scaffolding, and trust-building, I argue that it is feasible for an ally scholar to transform apprehension and vulnerability into decolonizing actions and ethical research practices.
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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 | 0.013 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.063 | 0.045 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.022 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.024 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".