My Land Is My Flesh Silver Bluff, the Creek Indians, and the Transformation of Colonized Space in Early America

This essay explores how Native peoples like the Creek (Muscogee) Indians invested colonized spaces in early American society with their own material, commercial, political, and spiritual meanings and importance. In particular, Creek Indians from the town of Coweta transformed Silver Bluff, the plantation of the trader and merchant George Galphin, into a “white ground,” as a place connected to Creek Country by a “white path,” and as a space where Creek and British leaders congregated to conduct business and negotiate politics. For it is no coincidence that the treaties of Augusta in 1763 and 1773, peaceful resolutions agreed to by the Creeks with the British Empire in 1760, 1764, 1773, 1774, and 1776, the negotiations over boundary lines in 1768 and 1774, and several other instances of cross-cultural dialogue all unfolded, started, or ended at Silver Bluff. The Creeks thereby enfolded occupied spaces like Silver Bluff—and the peoples who inhabited or congregated at such places—into their own worlds and according to their own understandings of those spaces. This process of spatial assimilation by the Creeks was as much collaborative as it was contested with Europeans throughout the eighteenth century

A photometric method for deriving lunar topographic information

Photometry method for lunar topography - elevation calculations in terms of lens-centered and moon-centered coordinate system

A figure of merit measuring picture resolution

Figure of merit measuring picture resolutio

Exploring the Validity of Multi Causal Models in Problem Analysis: The Case of Child Abuse

The purpose of the study reported here was to assess the validity of a multi-causal view of child abuse as it is manifested in children\u27s institutions. The analytical model utilized underlines the powerful role that norms play in creating differential predispositions to violence, that pressures and structural position play in creating differential chances of violence among people with different predispositions and that a sense of injustice plays as a dynamic through which violence is generated. This ex post facto study utilized role playing techniques to examine voluntary harm doing in a purposive sample of 100 direct caregivers in 42 living units in 15 children\u27s homes for the dependent, neglected and disturbed. The dependent variable was level of justified force. Data was collected on 20 background and organizational variables. Several variables were moderately associated with level of force. More force was espoused when respondents were older, had less education, were married, had live in schedules, were reared in smaller towns, had less participation in decision making, worked where residents were managed in more organization centered ways and experienced higher amounts of felt injustice. A larger structure of understanding was developed by determining how strong the association was between all of the variables taken together and level of force. A multiple correlation of .63 was obtained at the .01 level of significance. Some implications for preventing and managing the use of force by caregivers are suggested

Funding Opportunities for Brownfield Redevelopment

Many financial tools are available to redevelopers of former industrial and commercial sites, commonly known as “brownfields.” Because the money is often tied to federal, state, or local government programs, time is usually a factor in such transactions. This Article explores the various financial mechanisms available to brownfield redevelopers, including government funding sources, insurance claims, and cost recovery from parties who are found responsible for the contamination