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Alexander Morris and the Saulteaux : the context and making of treaty three, 1869-73
Get PDFThe primary purpose of this thesis is to explore and analyze the circumstances
surrounding the Treaty Three agreement between the Canadian government and the
Anishinabe in 1873. The agreement is important for a number of reasons. The Anishinabe
won significant concessions from Canada that, not only led to the renegotiation of Treaties
One and Two, but set the standard for the rest of the numbered treaties across Western
Canada as well. It is helpful to remember that while most of the other numbered treaties
were signed in a matter of weeks, Treaty Three was over four years in the making. The
Anishinabe realized the value of their land and insisted on key demands from the Dominion
government. They remained committed to their basic position from 1869 when they first
issued a copy of their demands to the Canadian government until 1873 when they finally
signed Treaty Three. These demands went far beyond what Indian agents were commissioned
by the Canadian cabinet to agree to. The Anishinabe realized this and held up the talks until
they could negotiate with a representative of the Queen, who they believed had the authority
to deal with their demands. In 1873, they received such an individual in Alexander Morris,
the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. The Anishinabe could
not have realized at the time that Morris’ instructions were as narrow as the other
representatives who had earlier attempted to negotiate a treaty with them.
It is not surprising that Morris has received much of the credit for negotiating Treaty
Three which had eluded the Canadian government since the Riel Resistance. However, a
careful examination of the available evidence suggests that the agreement was made possible
by the work of Simon Dawson and his associates Richard Pither and Nicholas Chatelain on
one hand and James McKay and other Metis leaders of the Red River community who accompanied Morris to Lake of the Woods in 1873. This paper argues that it was a
combination of these two factors, the rank that Morris enjoyed in the eyes of the Anishinabe
and the role played Dawson, McKay and the rest of the Canadian negotiating team that led to
the successful agreement in 1873.
In the 1870’s, Canadian officials referred to the Anishinabe as the Saulteaux. There is
no evidence available that suggests that they ever called themselves by this term.
Nevertheless, all of the primary and many of the secondary sources use the word Saulteaux,
so, for sake of consistency and in order to avoid confusion, I have decided to use it
throughout this paper
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
KiHS: Bridging the Traditional and Virtual Classroom in Canadas First Nation Schools
Get PDFKOs Internet High School (KIHS) provides Grade Nine and Ten students from remote and isolated First Nation schools in Ontarios far north with the opportunity to receive a high quality secondary school education without having to leave their families and communities. Until KiHS, students as young as fourteen had to leave home and attend school in urban communities. With KiHS, these students can remain home during these critical years and are better equipped both academically and socially to cope with the challenges of city life when they choose to complete their high school education in the south. For more information, see www.kihs.knet.c
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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