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- Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
- Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. By Claudio Saunt. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 300. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517631-5.) Claudio Saunt's Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, like Tiya Miles's Ties That...
- Research articles 2008-11-01
- 'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company
- SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Current issues in the skilled temporary subclass 457 visa
- There has been a sharp increase in the numbers of skilled migrants sponsored by employers on long-stay temporary entry visas (subclass 457). Several trade unions and the Australian Labor Party have asserted that some sponsoring employers pay below market rates to the migrants in question. This article examines this and...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Speaking with and away: what the aporia of ineffability has to say for Buddhist-Christian dialogue.(COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY)
- Years ago, I entered my graduate studies with the intent of undertaking a comparative study of the Christian apophatic tradition and Indian Mahayana Buddhism. Shortly after enrolling in a course on Indian Buddhist philosophy, I recall a question that in spite of its apparent simplicity has...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Ceramics, seeds and culinary change in prehistoric India
- Introduction We all recognise that culinary practice, or cuisine, selected foods and the way they are prepared and flavoured is regionally and culturally distinctive. We have a sense of what to expect when we go to an Indian restaurant and we know that all the dishes there will have...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Michigan: cartographic perspectives on the "Great Lakes State"
- Since the beginning of American statehood, a map of the commonwealth has been an important expression of sovereignty and civic identity. The United States, it was true, cemented together the separate states, a unity created out of many entities, e pluribus unum. In the federal vision, however, individual states, especially...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Embedded in the "Battle of the Lakes": a report from the textual frontlines of the 1833 Humboldt Sink massacre
- The first battle between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in what is today Nevada occurred in 1833 when a party of forty or fifty beaver trappers led by Joseph Walker killed more than twenty-five Paiute Indians near the Humboldt Sink. (1) This battle, where the Humboldt River pools up and sinks...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- 1491: in search of Native America
- We know of scarcely any record of destructive exploitation in all the span of human existence until we enter the period of modern history, when transatlantic expansion of European commerce, peoples, and governments takes place. Then begins what may well be the tragic rather than the great age of man....
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Interior Secretary Pushes Rule Enforcement for Tribal Casinos.
- By Tony Batt, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13--Interior Secretary Gale Norton, responding to national publicity about problems in Indian gaming, said Thursday the benefits of tribal casinos will be undermined without effective regulation. "As we...
- Research articles 2002-12-13
- Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India
- By Corinne G. Dempsey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 213 pp. np. Indian Christians are in a precarious political position. Although they constitute little more than 2 percent of the total population, they have been targeted for political and in some cases physical attack by Hindu nationalists who...
- Research articles 2002-03-22
- North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails, 1880-1920
- IN APRIL 1854, the Great Western Railway declared that it urgently needed eight hundred workers to guard its tracks against stray cattle and hog crossings. Its advertisement, strategically placed in Canada's most important black newspaper of the day, the Provincial Freeman, sought African Canadians for the task. [1] Before the...
- Research articles 2001-03-22
- Co-management—the Manitoba experience
- ABSTRACT: Manitoba Conservation formerly Manitoba Department of Natural Resources has been involved in co-management programs involving First Nation communities as well as other organizations for some time. Those with the former attract the most attention. Some agreements in Manitoba are ad hoc arrangements that have been developed with various First...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Raced female body and the discourse of Peuplement in Rudy Wiebe's The temptations of big bear and The scorched-wood people
- "TO BEGIN WITH, every individual who will appear in this story is an historic person. Not one name has been invented" (Wiebe, qtd. in Keith 136). So wrote the Albertan novelist Rudy Wiebe in an early preface to The Temptations of Big Bear, a novel built upon four years of...
- Research articles 2000-12-22
- Wildlife promotions, western Canadian boosterism, and the conservation movement, 1890-1914
- Between 1890 and World War One, western Canadians advertised their region as the last wildlife stronghold in North America. Few studies have assessed how and why westerners sought to win distinction as custodians of the last wild animals but, as this essay will demonstrate, urban promoters made numerous civic statements...
- Research articles 1998-03-22
- The great clean-up. (interview with Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor D.R. Mehta)(Interview)
- Reserve Bank of India Deputy Gov. D.R. Mehta believes that the 1992 securities scam was unfortunate but it has also allowed Indian monetary officials to tighten their oversight of the industry. For example, several measures to improve the entire audit system were initiated while new provisioning norms and capital adequacy...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
- Bhopal's victims still wait. (for compensation)
- MORE than three years have passed since a chemical explosion at Bhopal, in India, killed at least 2,000 people and hurt up to 200,000 others. The surviving victims have yet to receive compensation because the Indian courts are still trying to decide whether Union Carbide's Indian...
- Research articles 1988-05-14
- Wallstrip: Hollywood Recession
- Lost your job, home, and dignity? Cheer up, I hear that new Batman movie is awesome.
- Videos 2008-08-01
- Inside India: Indians view their automotive future
- A study of the Indian auto industry from University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute's Automotive Analysis Division and the IBM Institute for Business Value.
- White papers 2007-06-19
Additional Resources
- DTN News: India Seeks To Bolster Transport With 10 C-17s Heavy-Lift Globemaster Aircraft / Indian Air Force To Acquire 10 C-17 Globemaster III
- DTN News: India Seeks To Bolster Transport With 10 C-17s Heavy-Lift Globemaster Aircraft / Indian Air Force To Acquire 10 C-17 Globemaster III Heavy-Lift Aircraft *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media NSI News Source Info NEW DELHI, India - November 6, 2009: The Indian Defence Ministry...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Why Indian CEOs Are in Great Demand
- Why Indian CEOs Are in Great DemandIndiian Emotional IntelligenceAntoine de Saint-Exupery says (in "The Little Prince") "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."A subtle advantage that I think many Indians have is a more highly developed emotional intelligence...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
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