The return of water: the role of micropolitics in reclaiming indigenous space and decolonizing the Blackfeet Nation
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Abstract
The Blackfeet Tribe's relationship to their land and water is ancient and sacred. Before Colonial settlement the Blackfeet people (properly known as the Amskapi Piikani) intentionally and sustainably governed a vast territory that spanned from Northern Saskatchewan, Canada, to the Yellowstone River in Southwest Montana. By means of a succession of treaties, the Blackfeet Tribe lost large tracts of their ancestral land to the US Government via the creation of Glacier National Park and the designation of US Forest Service districts. Federal laws and policies enacted during the Manifest Destiny Era spurred widespread settlement of Native lands and incentivized the consumption of natural resources for the purpose of building a Western agricultural empire. Thus began a steady state of settler colonialism and ongoing extraction which caused the near destruction of Tribal socio-political structures and the transition of long- standing agricultural practices to commodity production. Since the first European touched foot on Blackfeet soil, the Tribe sought to protect and reclaim their territories through community- level action or "micropolitics," and the Tribe's remarkable leaders have since stunned the world with policy and culture-based solutions that have reversed the effects of colonization and settlement. By tracing effective actions taken by Blackfeet leaders throughout 100 years of Blackfeet policy history, this empirical, in-depth case study sought to better understand how Native communities can engage federal "macropolitical" systems and devise creative on-the- ground micropolitical strategies that result in the decolonization and regaining control of physical and socio-political spaces. Informed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's spatially- oriented work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia that describes how societies self-organize, and Lance Gunderson and C.S. Holling's Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems, a work that illustrates the mechanics of complex, interconnected human and natural systems, this study illustrates how colonization and decolonization actually work as systems tied to essential resource use, cultural preservation, and human dignity and freedom.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".