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cultural boundaries differ.", "Connect a named people to its own publications, language resources and identified representative institutions.", "Assess whether a proposed description wrongly generalises one community's experience across the grouping.", "Identify the relevant community authority and permission requirements before proposing research, mapping or knowledge reuse.", "Surface missing evidence and unresolved perspectives before generating a regional account." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the peoples grouped under the term, citing ethnographic and community sources.", "Use the names that nations use for themselves." ], "must_not": [ "Treat the grouping as one people or culture.", "Share sacred knowledge or locations without community consent.", "Describe the peoples only in the past tense.", "Use outdated or offensive names." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing material on land rights or treaty matters." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Colonial labels have 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"what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Subarctic", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "regional-scope-and-identity", "name": "Regional scope and distinct identities", "description": "Establish what Subarctic means in this entry and preserve the identities of the peoples grouped within it.", "rationale": "A regional umbrella can otherwise be mistaken for a unified people with a fixed membership list.", "layers": [ { "id": "subarctic-classification", "name": "Subarctic classification", "description": "Separate the geographic and cultural meanings used to construct the grouping.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-regional-boundary", "name": "Attributed regional boundary", "description": "Record each proposed extent with its source, classification basis and period instead of asserting an unqualified boundary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry label refer to a North American cultural region, a circumpolar grouping or another explicitly defined extent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-regional-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which source defines that extent, and does it use cultural, ecological or climatic criteria?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-regional-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "constituent-peoples-and-names", "name": "Constituent peoples and names", "description": "Identify distinct peoples without allowing regional terminology to replace their own names.", "findings": [ { "id": "named-peoples-with-inclusion-evidence", "name": "Named peoples with inclusion evidence", "description": "Keep community-preferred names, source-specific inclusion and disputed classifications distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which 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"name": "Homeland versus regional map", "description": "Distinguish community-described territories and place names from the boundary used by a regional catalogue.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does each people describe its homeland, and where does that description cross the chosen Subarctic boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "homeland-versus-regional-map-q01" }, { "text": "Which community sources authorise the place names and territorial descriptions suitable for public use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "homeland-versus-regional-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonality-and-residence", "name": "Seasonality and residence", "description": "Record temporal and practical relationships to places where they are documented.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-specific-land-relationships", "name": "Time-specific land relationships", "description": "Keep seasonal activities, settlement histories and contemporary residence specific to the community and period concerned.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which seasonal routes, gathering places or land-based activities does the community document, and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "time-specific-land-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "How should the account distinguish homeland relationships from current residence, including residence outside the region?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "time-specific-land-relationships-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "languages-and-cultural-continuity", "name": "Languages and cultural continuity", "description": "Represent linguistic diversity and community-directed transmission without inventing a shared Subarctic culture.", "rationale": "Regional summaries need to preserve differences in language, practice and the authority to describe them.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-and-community-relations", "name": "Language and community relations", "description": "Associate languages with particular peoples and communities through explicit evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-specific-associations", "name": "Language-specific associations", "description": "Distinguish language names, varieties and documented community relationships from broad ethnographic labels.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language names and varieties do the relevant communities use, and how do these relate to externally catalogued names?", "kind": "definition", "id": "language-specific-associations-q01" }, { "text": "If language-use figures are supplied, what population, date and definition of speaker or learner do they measure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-specific-associations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-directed-transmission", "name": "Community-directed transmission", "description": "Document how communities choose to sustain and communicate particular practices and knowledge.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-cultural-practices", "name": "Situated cultural practices", "description": "Attribute practices and transmission initiatives to their 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"Identify the constituency and subject matter of each representative relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-mandates", "name": "Bounded representative mandates", "description": "Record who speaks for which community or collective, on which matters and during which period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community or institution identifies this representative, and what constituency and matters does the mandate cover?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-mandates-q01" }, { "text": "Does a proposed attribution incorrectly extend one body's position to all Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-mandates-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-and-present-conditions", "name": "Historical and present conditions", "description": "Locate documented changes in community life within specific places, periods and perspectives.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-specific-change-record", "name": "Community-specific change record", "description": "Separate historical accounts from contemporary evidence when describing settlement, displacement, institutions or land access.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which changes does the community's own account identify, and what dates and locations anchor those changes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-specific-change-record-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports describing a historical condition as continuing, altered or resolved today?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-specific-change-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "responsible-evidence-and-engagement", "name": "Responsible evidence and engagement", "description": "Make the limits of regional claims and the conditions for interacting with community knowledge explicit.", "rationale": "Useful recognition must lead to appropriately scoped descriptions and actions, especially where sources or permissions disagree.", "layers": [ { "id": "claim-scope-and-source-perspective", "name": "Claim scope and source perspective", "description": "Keep every description tied to the people, period and perspective its evidence supports.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-generalisation-check", "name": "Regional generalisation check", "description": "Require evidence for the breadth of each claim and retain disagreements between community and external accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence concern one community, several named peoples or the entire stated regional grouping?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-generalisation-check-q01" }, { "text": "Where community accounts and external classifications differ, how will each position and its provenance remain visible?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regional-generalisation-check-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "knowledge-permissions-and-contact", "name": "Knowledge permissions and contact", "description": "Determine the applicable authority and conditions for a concrete proposed use.", "findings": [ { "id": "purpose-specific-engagement-conditions", "name": "Purpose-specific engagement conditions", "description": "Treat permission as specific to the material, community authority and proposed activity, including mapping or automated reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is identified as authorised to approve the proposed use of this knowledge, recording or place information?", "kind": "action", "id": "purpose-specific-engagement-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What conditions apply to publication, translation, automated processing or redistribution, and what must remain pending when permission is unknown?", "kind": "action", "id": "purpose-specific-engagement-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Check whether the registry intends the North American cultural area or a circumpolar geographic grouping.", "The listed peoples are illustrative constituent groupings, not an exhaustive or mutually exclusive taxonomy.", "Community-preferred names, membership, territories and legal status require nation-specific verification; no sources were consulted for this recall description." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Dene peoples", "Cree peoples of the Subarctic", "Innu", "Naskapi" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Comparative ethnography and cultural-area classification", "Historical interpretation of relationships among communities, boreal environments and trade networks", "Museum and educational descriptions of northern North American Indigenous cultures", "Regional organization of research, with specific nations and communities identified separately" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating a regional classification as a single ethnicity, nation or government", "Presenting historical hunting, fishing and gathering practices as exhaustive descriptions of contemporary lives", "Confusing language affiliation with political membership or Indigenous identity", "Using externally imposed cultural-area boundaries to override communities' own identities and territorial understandings", "Applying one jurisdiction's legal categories to peoples across national and provincial or territorial borders" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Western North American Subarctic classifications prominently include peoples speaking Athabaskan languages, including numerous Dene peoples.", "Eastern North American Subarctic classifications prominently include Algonquian-speaking peoples, including Cree, Innu and Naskapi.", "A circumpolar use of 'Subarctic' can encompass northern Eurasia; that broader geographic scope differs from the conventional North American cultural-area category." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Indigenous peoples of the Arctic", "difference": "Conventionally associated with Arctic coastal and tundra regions; the Subarctic category centers on boreal regions, although boundaries and livelihoods overlap." }, { "name": "First Nations", "difference": "A Canadian designation encompassing many peoples both within and outside the Subarctic; it does not encompass Alaska Native peoples." }, { "name": "Alaska Native peoples", "difference": "A designation tied to Alaska that includes peoples associated with several cultural regions, not only the Subarctic." }, { "name": "Dene", "difference": "Names particular Indigenous peoples and broader relationships among them; it is not synonymous with all Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating registry source intend the North American Subarctic cultural area or a broader circumpolar grouping?", "Which peoples belong in the initial sourced inclusion list, and where do their self-descriptions qualify or reject that classification?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this regional grouping, requiring a link instead of a separate publication?", "Which community-authored sources and naming authorities should guide descriptions where historical classifications conflict?", "Which territorial, cultural and linguistic materials are appropriate for public modelling, and which require specific permission or omission?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }