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Abstract
Distributed by Good DocsProduced by Bonnie Thompson, Tasha Hubbard, Jason Ryle, and George HupkaDirected by Tasha Hubbard2023, Streaming, 99 mins Early in Singing Back the Buffalo, viewers are introduced to “Buffalo Consciousness,” an idea central to the film that’s used to describe the bond between buffalo and indigenous people. The term recognizes spiritual and ecological elements that today serve as a uniting force for tribes throughout North America working together to restore buffalo populations. The film’s director, Tasha Hubbard, who based her doctoral dissertation on Buffalo Consciousness, follows native activists making profound impacts on their communities and the lands to which buffalo have returned. Their work reveals deep, systemic divides in the ways that native and non-native people have practiced conservation and restoration. The Buffalo Treaty, an intertribal alliance representing almost 50 nations, guides indigenous-led projects to restore buffalo to 6.3 million acres of land in Canada and the United States. Through the work of the treaty, buffalo populations have been reintroduced to areas including Banff National Park in Alberta and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. Left free in these places, their populations continue to grow and provide ecological benefits for other species. Throughout the film, native activists reject the idea of ownership of the buffalo, insisting on their freedom to roam across park, state, and even national boundaries. Although the focus of the film rests on these present-day actions to reestablish buffalo populations, Singing Back the Buffalo also does an excellent job of detailing the magnitude of destruction that nearly caused the extinction of buffalo in North America. White settlers and their governments reduced a population that once numbered in the millions down to several hundred, turning their grazing grounds into farmland and the buffalo themselves into leather, fertilizer, and other industrial goods. The film is particularly attentive to the way this destruction extended beyond the animals themselves to the spiritual and religious practices of native peoples. The Buffalo Child Stone (Mostos Awasis Asiniy to the Cree people), a stone sacred to several plains’ First Nations, was blown up by the Canadian government in order to build a dam. A photograph from the time shows a government worker standing atop the fragments, a crass contrast to another photograph from the film that depicts solemn Cree people holding what they know will be the last ceremony there. The film provides an opportunity for classes covering conservation and restoration to explore native-led projects. Singing Back the Buffalo is also recommended for ethnic studies and anthropology classes that explore ties between people, land, and ecology. The Buffalo Treaty seeks to restore populations in areas throughout the Canadian and U.S. plains. Public libraries in those areas should also consider adding the film to their holdings to encourage allyship and cooperative efforts. Awards:Y for Youth, Special Mention, DOXA Documentary Film Festival; Honorable Mention, Documentary Feature, Calgary International Film Festival
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.002 |
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 it