In addition, municipalities that change the rate of the LST or impose a new LST need to notify DCED of the new rate by December 1, 2007.[5] The name of the tax should be changed from the âEmergency and Municipal Services Taxâ to the âLocal Services Tax.â Deadlines follow. New Tax.
Other tribes lost their languages and most of their culture. Nonetheless, Native Americans have proved to be resilient. Today they number 4.5 million (about 1.5 percent of the total U.S. population), and only about one-third of Native Americans still live on reservations. Countless American place-names derive from Indian words, including the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and Idaho.
Who Is Native American, And Who Decides That? More than five million people in the U.S. claim some form of Native American identity, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. November is Native American Heritage Month and host Michel Martin kicks it off with the first in a series of conversations with author Anton Treuer. He talks about who is Native American and how that identity is determined.