{ "model": { "rank": 6258, "code": "thing-q117191", "model_id": "vr.tr.cree", "name": "Cree", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Cree collective referent, assess the evidence describing its situation, and determine which community-specific authorities and permissions govern a proposed action.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q117191/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Rocky Cree", "Swampy Cree", "Plains Cree", "Woodland Cree" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q117191", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117191", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:29:26Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00732258, "turns": 1, "seconds": 100.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 97.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c0d-01a3-7260-9c22-cec8619dc41a\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Cree\nRegistry id: vr.tr.cree\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model s" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q117191", "registryId": "vr.tr.cree", "name": "Cree", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q117191/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.cree", "name": "Cree", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Cree collective referent, assess the evidence describing its situation, and determine which community-specific authorities and permissions govern a proposed action.", "definition": "Cree (nêhiyawak / nêhinawak / ililîw / iyyiw, among other autonyms) are an Algonquian Indigenous people of the northern woodlands and plains of what is now Canada and the northern United States, constituting a dialect continuum of closely related nations rather than a single polity.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interpret vr.tr.cree as Cree peoples in SOC / SOC.PER; own the distinctions, relationships and evidence needed to describe that collective identity without treating every Cree community as one polity or automatically classifying individuals.", "in_scope": [ "The intended collective referent of Cree and community-authorised names for it", "Relationships among Cree collective identity, particular communities and regional affiliations", "Community-specific connections to languages, homelands and cultural transmission", "The scope of representation and authority for decisions concerning a named Cree collective", "Community-defined indicators of continuity and current priorities", "Provenance, access restrictions and permitted uses of information about Cree communities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual biographies, ancestry verification and personal identity adjudication", "Detailed grammars, dictionaries and linguistic classification", "Internal administration of particular governments or organisations", "Land-parcel records, boundary surveys and legal determinations of title", "Full treaty texts, litigation histories and legal eligibility decisions", "Unrestricted inventories of ceremonies, sacred knowledge or cultural objects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether Cree denotes people in the source, rather than a language, organisation, personal name or commercial entity.", "Require evidence of the particular collective being described before extending a statement about one Cree community to the registry entry as a whole.", "Distinguish collective identity from a governing institution: the Cree Nation Government describes both local governments and shared representative structures within Eeyou Istchee. [Cree Nation Government](https://www.cngov.ca/community-culture/communities/)", "Keep language use, residence, self-identification and community recognition as separate evidence; none should automatically substitute for the others.", "Resolve similarity to neighbouring Indigenous identities through the relevant communities' descriptions rather than geographic proximity or an agent-inferred cultural resemblance." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved | broad collective | specified regional collective | specified community | non-people referent", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the model applies and how broadly a claim may be used." }, { "name": "Community-authorised designation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Name linked to the community, language context and source authorising its use", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an English umbrella label or a locally used name from erasing distinctions." }, { "name": "Collective affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community-to-collective relationship, with attribution and effective period", "why_it_matters": "Allows different levels of Cree affiliation to coexist without assuming a single hierarchy." }, { "name": "Language relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-named language or variety and its reported role in community life", "why_it_matters": "Supports language-sensitive work without using fluency as an identity test." }, { "name": "Homeland relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-attributed relationship to a named place, with temporal scope and disclosure conditions", "why_it_matters": "Separates homeland connections from current residence and administrative boundaries." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Representative linked to constituency, subject matter, authorisation evidence and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents authority concerning one community or issue from being extended to all Cree peoples." }, { "name": "Community-defined continuity indicator", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Indicator-specific unit, population, method and observation date approved for the stated use", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of community priorities without inventing a universal score of Cree authenticity." }, { "name": "Knowledge-use permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unknown | permitted for specified use | restricted | withheld | withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may reproduce, translate, aggregate or disclose particular material." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a reference to Cree and link it to an evidenced collective context.", "Compare accounts of a named Cree community while preserving differences in author, time and scope.", "Locate the relevant representative or knowledge custodian for a specified proposed action.", "Assess a community-defined indicator against its own baseline and measurement limits.", "Prepare appropriately attributed descriptions or language-sensitive materials within recorded permissions.", "Flag unsupported generalisations, unresolved authority and restricted knowledge before acting." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ethnologue-cre", "title": "Cree (cre) - macrolanguage entry", "url": "https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cre", "what_it_supports": "ISO 639-3 macrolanguage status of Cree and the named member languages (crk, cwd, csw, crm, crl, crj, nsk, atj, etc.).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iso639-3-cre", "title": "ISO 639-3 macrolanguage: cre (Cree)", "url": "https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/cre", "what_it_supports": "Official macrolanguage code and the inventory of individual Cree language identifiers issued by SIL International.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "statcan-indigenous-languages", "title": "Indigenous languages across Canada", "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2023029-eng.htm", "what_it_supports": "Census-scale speaker counts and the ranking of Cree languages among Indigenous languages in Canada.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "rcaanc-cree", "title": "First Nations in Canada / Cree communities context", "url": "https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/", "what_it_supports": "Federal recognition of Cree First Nations, treaty relationships, and the distinction between First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cree-referent-and-names", "name": "Cree referent and names", "description": "Establish what Cree denotes in this registry and in each account using it.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, so the agent must resolve the referent before attaching collective claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "collective-referent", "name": "Collective referent", "description": "Separate the broad registry concept from particular communities and unrelated uses of the word.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-cree-collective", "name": "Intended Cree collective", "description": "Record the evidence identifying the collective intended by a use of Cree and the limits of that interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use of Cree identify peoples collectively, a particular community, or a different kind of referent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-cree-collective-q01" }, { "text": "Which source establishes that interpretation, and what remains ambiguous?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-cree-collective-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-naming", "name": "Community naming", "description": "Preserve names in their community and language contexts.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-authorised-names", "name": "Locally authorised names", "description": "Record preferred designations and their relationship to Cree without assuming all names are interchangeable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which designation does the named community use for itself in this context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "locally-authorised-names-q01" }, { "text": "Who supports the spelling, translation and scope of this designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locally-authorised-names-q02" }, { "text": "When would substituting Cree for that designation lose a distinction the community considers meaningful?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "locally-authorised-names-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cree-affiliation-and-belonging", "name": "Cree affiliation and belonging", "description": "Describe collective relationships while keeping personal identity and formal membership distinct.", "rationale": "An agent needs to recognise overlapping affiliations without manufacturing membership rules for Cree peoples.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-relationships", "name": "Community relationships", "description": "Locate a named community within the collective relationships it acknowledges.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-collective-affiliation", "name": "Evidenced collective affiliation", "description": "Record community-attributed affiliations without presuming that regional, cultural and political groupings coincide.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does this community describe its relationship to Cree collective identity and any regional grouping?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidenced-collective-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "Which relationships are cultural, linguistic or political, and where do their scopes differ?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidenced-collective-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-boundaries", "name": "Recognition boundaries", "description": "Prevent collective descriptions from becoming automated judgments about individuals.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-membership-separation", "name": "Identity and membership separation", "description": "Distinguish attributed self-identification, community recognition and formal membership wherever a task requires those concepts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which meaning of belonging is relevant to the task, and whose account defines it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-and-membership-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Would the proposed operation infer a person's Cree identity from language, surname, residence or ancestry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-and-membership-separation-q02" }, { "text": "Which relevant community process should receive a recognition question the agent cannot resolve?", "kind": "action", "id": "identity-and-membership-separation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cree-language-and-continuity", "name": "Cree language and continuity", "description": "Connect named communities to their own language descriptions and priorities for cultural transmission.", "rationale": "A Cree model must support differences in language context and continuity without making either a test of authentic identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-context", "name": "Language context", "description": "Identify the language context needed for communication with a particular Cree audience.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-language-and-writing", "name": "Community language and writing", "description": "Record the community's language designation, relevant writing conventions and evidence needed to select language resources.", "questions": [ { "text": "What language or variety name and writing convention does the intended Cree audience request?", "kind": "definition", "id": "community-language-and-writing-q01" }, { "text": "Who can verify that a translation or language resource suits this community and use?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-language-and-writing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-priorities", "name": "Continuity priorities", "description": "Represent community-selected aims and evidence concerning transmission across generations.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-defined-transmission-state", "name": "Community-defined transmission state", "description": "Record priorities, observations and indicators for the particular community rather than assigning a general state to all Cree peoples.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language or cultural transmission priorities has this community identified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-defined-transmission-state-q01" }, { "text": "What indicator, population, date and method support the reported state?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "community-defined-transmission-state-q02" }, { "text": "Which comparison would exceed the indicator's scope or misrepresent the community?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-defined-transmission-state-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cree-homelands-and-place", "name": "Cree homelands and place", "description": "Represent community-attributed connections to places without reducing them to residence or administrative geography.", "rationale": "Place-related work needs to distinguish the Cree collective concerned, the relationship asserted and the evidence required for the proposed use.", "layers": [ { "id": "homeland-connections", "name": "Homeland connections", "description": "Capture how a named Cree community describes its relationship to a place.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-place-relationship", "name": "Attributed place relationship", "description": "Record the community, place, nature of the relationship and permissible level of geographic detail.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Cree community describes this place relationship, and how does it characterise it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-place-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account concern homeland, residence, use, stewardship or another explicitly named relationship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-place-relationship-q02" }, { "text": "May the place name or location be reproduced at the requested precision?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-place-relationship-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "geographic-and-temporal-limits", "name": "Geographic and temporal limits", "description": "Keep historical connections, current settlement and administrative representations distinguishable.", "findings": [ { "id": "place-account-boundaries", "name": "Place account boundaries", "description": "Record the time and purpose of a geographic account and preserve unresolved differences between accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What period and purpose does this description or map represent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "place-account-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which community account supports it, and which differing accounts remain unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "place-account-boundaries-q02" }, { "text": "Does the proposed use require a separate land or legal model before a decision can be made?", "kind": "action", "id": "place-account-boundaries-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cree-representation-and-action", "name": "Cree representation and action", "description": "Identify who may speak or decide for the specified Cree collective on the proposed matter.", "rationale": "Recognition of a Cree affiliation does not establish a mandate to represent every Cree community.", "layers": [ { "id": "representative-scope", "name": "Representative scope", "description": "Connect representatives to an evidenced constituency and subject-specific mandate.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-mandate", "name": "Bounded representative mandate", "description": "Record whom a representative speaks for, on what matters and during which period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Cree community or collective does this person or body represent for this matter?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q01" }, { "text": "What current community-issued evidence establishes the mandate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-routing", "name": "Action routing", "description": "Determine the appropriate community process for a concrete proposed interaction.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-specific-decision-path", "name": "Community-specific decision path", "description": "Record the decision process relevant to a request and any unresolved authority rather than treating contact as consent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which process does the affected Cree community specify for this proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-specific-decision-path-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes an introduction, consultation, endorsement and authorisation in this case?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-specific-decision-path-q02" }, { "text": "What must the agent defer while the relevant authority or permission remains unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-specific-decision-path-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cree-knowledge-and-accountability", "name": "Cree knowledge and accountability", "description": "Preserve the origins, community scope and permitted uses of accounts concerning Cree peoples.", "rationale": "An account about one Cree community must not become unattributed, universally applicable or freely reusable merely because an agent can access it.", "layers": [ { "id": "account-provenance", "name": "Account provenance", "description": "Make each substantive account traceable to its speaker, context and intended scope.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-cree-account", "name": "Situated Cree account", "description": "Record whether an account is community-issued, individually attributed or externally produced, together with its evidential limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who produced this account, when, and in relation to which Cree community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-cree-account-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account claim a personal, community, regional or broader perspective?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-cree-account-q02" }, { "text": "How should a correction or disagreement from the relevant community be recorded and reflected in later use?", "kind": "action", "id": "situated-cree-account-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "knowledge-permissions", "name": "Knowledge permissions", "description": "Determine permitted handling of community knowledge and information derived from it.", "findings": [ { "id": "custodian-defined-use", "name": "Custodian-defined use", "description": "Record applicable custodianship and permissions for disclosure, translation, aggregation and reuse without assuming a universal Cree protocol.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is identified as the appropriate custodian for this material, and what supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "custodian-defined-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which uses, audiences and transformations are permitted for this material?", "kind": "action", "id": "custodian-defined-use-q02" }, { "text": "What handling is required when permission is unknown, restricted or withdrawn?", "kind": "action", "id": "custodian-defined-use-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Plains Cree (nêhiyawak)", "Woods Cree / Woodland Cree (nîhithaw)", "Swampy Cree (nêhinawak / ininîwak)", "Moose Cree (ililîw)", "East Cree / James Bay Cree (iiyiyiu / iiyuu; Northern and Southern)", "Atikamekw (nehirowisiw; closely related, often treated as a distinct nation)", "Naskapi and Innu (Nêhiraw / Innu; historically grouped with Eastern Cree by linguists, politically distinct)", "Rocky Cree / Rock Cree (asinîskâwiyiniwak)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q117198 (Cree people); Q33390 (Cree language)", "note": "People vs. language are separate items; do not collapse them." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "cre (macrolanguage); crk Plains, cwd Woods, csw Swampy, crm Moose, crl Northern East, crj Southern East; related: atj Atikamekw, nsk Naskapi, moe Innu-Montagnais", "note": "ISO 639-1/2 also use cr for the macrolanguage." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-1 / 639-2", "value_or_pattern": "cr / cre", "note": "Macrolanguage tags used in library and locale systems." }, { "scheme": "Glottolog", "value_or_pattern": "cree1271 (Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi)", "note": "Language-family node covering the dialect continuum." }, { "scheme": "IETF BCP 47", "value_or_pattern": "cr; script subtags Latn or Cans (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics)", "note": "Orthography is a first-class identifier split: Roman vs. syllabics." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Constitution Act, 1982, s. 35 (Canada) - aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, including Cree First Nations.", "Indian Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-5 (Canada) - legal status of status Indians, bands, and reserves; governs many Cree First Nations that are not under modern self-government.", "Numbered Treaties 1-11 and adhesions (Crown-First Nations, 1871-1921) - several Cree nations are signatories or adherents; treaty text and implementation remain contested.", "James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (1975) and Northeastern Quebec Agreement (1978) - modern treaties of the Eeyou/Eenou (James Bay Cree) and Naskapi; foundational for the Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee.", "Cree Nation Governance Agreement / Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act, S.C. 1984, c. 18 - federal statute implementing James Bay Cree local government, largely displacing the Indian Act in Eeyou Istchee.", "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, S.C. 2021, c. 14 (Canada) - framework for aligning federal law with UNDRIP, including Cree language, land, and self-determination claims.", "Official Languages Act (Quebec) / Charter of the French Language, as modified for Cree and Inuit regions - Cree is an official language of Eeyou Istchee local administration under JBNQA institutions.", "ISO 639-3 (SIL International) and Unicode Standard (Unicode Consortium) - language tagging and Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F) used to write Cree." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "As a legal and political identity: membership in Cree First Nations, the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee), the Cree Nation Government, and prairie tribal councils; used in treaty, consultation, and impact-benefit agreements.", "As a language of home, school, media, and liturgy: immersion and bilingual programmes (e.g. Maskwacis, Eeyou Istchee), CBC/radio in Cree, Anglican and Catholic syllabic liturgy, and public signage in Cree syllabics.", "As a census and health-admin category in Canada (First Nations identity; Cree as mother tongue / language spoken at home) and, more rarely, as an American Indian tribal affiliation in the U.S. (Rocky Boy, Fort Belknap, and other mixed Cree-Chippewa communities).", "As a land-use and wildlife-management subject: trapline systems, goose and moose harvest, and co-management boards under JBNQA and prairie natural-resource regimes.", "As an ethnolinguistic label in museums, archives, and ISNI/library authorities, often collapsing distinct nations into a single 'Cree' heading." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Population identifying as Cree (Canada, census identity)", "typical_range": "about 200,000-250,000 people reporting Cree identity in recent Canadian censuses; First Nations membership rolls are smaller and non-identical", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Mother-tongue / home speakers of Cree languages", "typical_range": "on the order of 80,000-100,000 speakers across the macrolanguage in Canada; East Cree, Plains Cree, and Swampy Cree account for most", "unit": "speakers" }, { "quantity": "Geographic range", "typical_range": "roughly from the Rocky Mountain foothills and northern plains through the boreal forest to James Bay and the Quebec-Labrador peninsula, ~55°-58° N core belt with communities south to the U.S. border", "unit": "geographic extent" }, { "quantity": "Number of recognized Cree First Nations / communities", "typical_range": "on the order of 100+ bands and Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee communities combined, depending on whether Atikamekw, Naskapi, and U.S. Cree-Chippewa groups are counted", "unit": "communities" }, { "quantity": "Dialect / ISO 639-3 inventory size", "typical_range": "1 macrolanguage (cre) plus about 6 core individual codes (crk, cwd, csw, crm, crl, crj), with 2-4 closely related neighbours often excluded politically", "unit": "language codes" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Collapsing the dialect continuum and distinct nations (Eeyou Istchee, Plains, Swampy, Moose, Atikamekw, Naskapi, Innu) into one legal or data subject, producing wrong consultation lists and wrong language resources.", "Confusing Cree people with Cree language, or with Métis communities that speak Michif or Plains Cree - identity, membership, and language are not the same variable.", "Indian Act band lists, treaty lists, and self-identified census counts disagree; using one as a proxy for another misstates rights-holders.", "Residential-school, reserve, and child-welfare policies produced language loss and family disruption; modelling 'Cree' as a stable ethnolinguistic stock without that history will misread vitality data.", "Resource extraction on Cree territories (hydroelectric, mining, forestry, oil sands) without adequate consultation creates legal, environmental, and food-security harm; JBNQA history is the canonical case.", "Syllabics vs. Roman orthography mismatch breaks search, education materials, and Unicode implementations; 'y-dot' and dialect-specific syllabic characters are routinely dropped.", "U.S. vs. Canadian legal frames: some Cree descendants are enrolled in Chippewa-Cree or other U.S. tribes; Canadian 'status' categories do not travel." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Autonyms and English exonyms shift by region: nêhiyawak (Plains), nîhithaw (Woods), nêhinawak/ininîwak (Swampy), ililîw (Moose), iiyiyiu/iiyuu (East/James Bay), nehirowisiw (Atikamekw).", "Quebec/Eeyou Istchee Cree operate under modern treaty self-government (JBNQA, Cree Nation Government) with Cree as a working language of local institutions; prairie Cree nations are mostly Indian Act / Numbered Treaty administrations.", "Writing systems: western Cree often uses Roman orthography (SRO, Standard Roman Orthography); James Bay, Swampy, and many church/education contexts use Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, with eastern vs. western pointings.", "U.S. presence is concentrated in Montana (Chippewa-Cree of Rocky Boy) and historically in North Dakota and the northern plains; the American legal category is tribal enrollment, not 'First Nation'.", "Atikamekw, Innu, and Naskapi may be classified with Cree by linguists (Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi continuum) but are distinct nations in Quebec and Labrador politics and in ISO 639-3.", "Y-dialect, th-dialect, n-dialect, l-dialect, r-dialect is the practical linguistic partition used by speakers and teachers; it does not map 1:1 onto political nations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Ojibwe / Anishinaabe (including Saulteaux)", "difference": "Also Algonquian and often neighbouring or intermarried; separate language (oji / ojg / ciw etc.), different autonyms, and different treaty/nation lists. Shared 'Nehiyaw-Pwat' / Iron Confederacy history does not make them the same people." }, { "name": "Métis", "difference": "A distinct Aboriginal people in Canadian law (s. 35; Powley). Many Métis speak or historically spoke Plains Cree or Michif; Cree ancestry or Cree language use does not make a person Cree for nation-membership or rights purposes." }, { "name": "Innu (Montagnais) and Naskapi", "difference": "Eastern end of the same language continuum (ISO moe, nsk) but politically and legally distinct nations in Quebec and Labrador; do not file them under Cree First Nations without their own identifiers." }, { "name": "Atikamekw", "difference": "Closely related language (atj) and culture in south-central Quebec; self-identify as a separate nation (Conseil de la Nation Atikamekw), not as Cree." }, { "name": "Inuit", "difference": "A different Aboriginal people (Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages, not Algonquian). Geographic overlap around James Bay / Nunavik requires care in 'northern Indigenous' aggregations." }, { "name": "Cree Inc. / Wolfspeed (semiconductor and LED firm)", "difference": "Unrelated U.S. company name; SOC.PER records must not inherit electronics-industry identifiers." }, { "name": "Cree language (as a catalogue object)", "difference": "The people and the macrolanguage are different registry things. A speaker of Cree is not necessarily a member of a Cree First Nation; a Cree person may speak English or French only." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Cree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.cree intend Cree peoples collectively, a Cree person category, or another referent, and does an existing Vercy world model already own that concept?", "Which Cree community-authored sources should establish the entry's breadth beyond the Eeyou Istchee material consulted, and which boundaries must remain explicitly unresolved?", "Which self-designations, regional affiliations and relationships to neighbouring identities should be represented, according to the communities concerned?", "Which community-defined indicators can describe current priorities and continuity without ranking cultural authenticity or exposing sensitive information?", "Which representation, knowledge-custodianship and reuse protocols apply to the concrete communities and agent actions this registry must support?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 40 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Cree, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Cree collective referent, assess the evidence describing its situation, and determine which community-specific authorities and permissions govern a proposed action.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Rocky Cree, Swampy Cree, Plains Cree, Woodland Cree.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Cree, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Rocky Cree", "Swampy Cree", "Plains Cree", "Woodland Cree" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Cree from another, and a Cree from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Cree sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Cree from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Cree is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Cree is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Cree moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Cree passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Cree between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Cree, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Cree is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Cree.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Cree and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Cree, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Cree and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Cree sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Cree.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does Cree require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses Cree, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What Cree actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define Cree, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as Cree, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Cree came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Cree and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Cree is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Cree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Cree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Cree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }