India native sojourns to Walnut while bicycling around the world to break record, spread environmental message
India native Avijit Chakraborty is venturing around the globe to deliver his message of creating a pollution-free world – all while doing most of his travel by bicycle.

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Native American group stops in Helena on cross-country diabetes walk
HELENA- Native Americans are uniting on a nationwide walk across America to reverse diabetes, and are in Helena for a couple of days during their cross-country trek.

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Students Seek to Educate for Native American Heritage Month
Although November is Native American Heritage Month, some members of Cornell’s Native American community say they are dissatisfied with the level of Native American recognition on campus.  read more

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Native American heritage month in Colorado
American Indian students honored statewide Auraria used to be a meeting place for Native Americans in this area,’ said Angela Marquez, executive director of the Educational Opportunity Program. …

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1st Thursdays celebrates Native American heritage tonight in Bay City
Several events highlight the downtown art gallery tonight, including a program by Children of the Turtle Shell, a youth group from Bay City Public Schools’ Title VII Indian Education Program. The group’s Drum Group and Dancer will perform in traditional attire while their arts and crafts are exhibited.

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Icons of life: A balance of traditional and contemporary Native art
The actress in a bear mask strutted, slinked and channeled the voice of a gloomy polar bear, rapping, “Oh-woe, where did all the ice go?” as the mingling throng nibbled on hors d’oeuvres, sipped wine and hobnobbed with the some of the best-known artists in Alaska.

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Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma Calls Tribes and Leaders to Washington for American Indian & Alaska Native …
 

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For many people who do not understand, native Americans will not get refunds just because they are native Americans by blood.  This is not how the native American Indian tax credits program works.  In fact, this type of credit program provides businesses with tax credits and not deductions to directly offset a company’s federal tax burdens.
What this means is that businesses will be given an incentive to hire and retain individuals who are part of a native American Indian tribe.  Even the spouse of an enrolled member of a tribe is qualified.  The other requirement is someone who lives on or is nearby an Indian reservation.

The native American Indian tax credits program is very significant.  In the state of Oklahoma alone, about two thirds of the state is qualified for special federal tax treatment.  This is because of the unique heritage that is Native American Indian.  Again, they do not get this special treatment because of their heritage.  But businesses who are located or expanding in that area will be able to benefit from this and from employment tax credits as well.  This happens when they start to hire people of the Native American Indian tribes and some of their spouses as well.This happens when they start to hire people of the Native American Indian tribes and some of their spouses as well.

Of course, this is not the only state that qualifies for the benefits when it comes to the employers and the employees.  But this is a significant example of the native American Indian tax credits program at work and it is one that deserves to be there as an incentive so that businesses and qualified individuals will be able to benefit from it.  This is definitely one of the more rare types of incentives or tax credits programs in the country but it is one that really works.