The Michigan Historical Review
Vol. 34 No. 2 Fall 2008
Contents
Introduction: Modern Borderlands
Nora Faires vii
The Permeable Border, the Great Lakes Region, and the
Canadian-American Relationship
John J. Bukowczyk 1
The Persistence of Travel and Trade: St. Lawrence River Valley
French Engagés and the American Fur Company, 1818-1840
Nicole St-Onge 17
Taming the “Savagery” of Michigan’s Indians
James Z. Schwartz 39
Navigating the Landscape of Assimilation: The Anishnabeg,
the Lumber Industry, and the Failure of Federal Indian
Policy in Michigan
Bradley J. Gills 57
Residents by Day, Visitors by Night: The Origins of the Alien
Commuter on the U.S.-Canadian Border during the 1920s
Thomas A. Klug 75
Detroit and Windsor as Transnational Spaces: A Case Study of
Asian Indian Migrants
Vibha Bhalla 99
Consuming Freedom: The International Freedom Festival as
Transnational Tourism Strategy on the Windsor-Detroit
Border, 1959-1976
Julie Longo 119