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Representatives from a variety of government offices at the Osage Nation made a two-day peer-to-peer visit to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on April 4 and 5 to learn more about the ins and outs of how the SRPMIC functions. The group included Osage Nation staff in the areas of social services, behavioral health, […]
As you enter the Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University’s Hayden Library, a small orange sign sits atop a desk to the left that says, “WARNING. O’odham HIMDAG enforced INDIGENOUS ZONE.” Labriola Director Alex Soto (Tohono O’odham) set the tone for the space, letting O’odham and other Native students know that […]
The 7th annual Piipaash Matasheevm (People’s Gathering) was held over two days on April 5 and 6 at the Lehi Gathering Area to honor the culture of the Piipaash. The event was put on by the Piipaash Matasheevm Committee (PMC). On the first day of Piipaash Matasheevm, the grounds of the Lehi Gathering Area were […]
To celebrate National Nutrition Month, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community-WIC and Public Health held a Sap ep Ka:k (“good food” in O’odham) event at the Accelerated Learning Academy gym on March 7. The event was originally planned to take place outside but was moved indoors due to inclement weather. In total there were 108 participants, […]
In 2019, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Hans Klose and his friend John Martinson, founder of the Valley of the Sun Electric Vehicle Association, drove a Tesla vehicle to every Native American reservation in the state of Arizona. Klose said that from those visits, the two concocted the idea of creating an electric vehicle […]
Several groups of seniors and youth gathered for a multi-department collaboration event at the Scottsdale Community College (SCC) Indigenous Cultural Center (ICC) and Garden on March 9 called Nurturing Generations Through the Garden. Staff from the college’s American Indian Program Center for Native and Urban Wildlife and garden volunteers worked side by side at the […]
Members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Young River People’s Council teamed up with participants of the Youth Services Teen Wolf mentorship program to work on a service project during spring break on March 21 at the Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) location in Mesa. Feed My Starving Children is a Christian nonprofit organization […]
President Joe Biden was in the Valley on March 19 and 20 to visit semiconductor manufacturer Intel’s Ocotillo campus in Chandler. He was there to announce that the U.S. Department of Commerce has reached a preliminary agreement with Intel to provide up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans under the […]
The Salt River Police Department has promoted Walter Holloway, an 18-year veteran of the department and a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member, to the post of police chief following the recent retirement of Chief Karl Auerbach. Holloway was most recently a commander for the SRPD after serving in a variety of roles for the […]
