BURNING ISSUE: The Amish settlement in St. Ignatius, Montana is the only one in the world located on tribal territory. Â The Amish arrival, though, has caused simmering tensions between the two very different groups who have virtually nothing in common culturally.
I'll write more about this in the near future, but I did have a chance to go to St. Ignatius a couple of years ago to explore the relations between the two groups. Â A lot of the concern back then concerned the Amish allegedly ignoring fishing, hunting, and gathering limits on tribal land. Â Now a new issue is cropping up: burning.
 Click here to read about how one Amish business is in hot water over burning refuse on his business's property.
WISCONSIN MEASLES: Â A measles outbreak in Ohio's Amish community has health officials in other states worried that they could be next. Â Read what one Wisconsin county is doing to prepare for the possibility.
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