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.
Native North American languages are spoken by about 380,000 Americans, according to the 2000 census. The Navajo Nation numbers almost 300,000 people, of whom about 178,000 speak the Navajo language, making it the most widely spoken Native American language....