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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are at higher risk of dying by suicide compared with other Americans. In 2019, non-Hispanic AI/AN people had a suicide rate 60% higher than that of the general population. The Indian Health Service (IHS) says that complex, interrelated […]
From August 25 to 27, the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) held its annual National Native Media Conference, this time on O’odham and Piipaash land downtown at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix. The conference was an opportunity for tribal media outlets, journalists and non-tribal media covering Indigenous issues to come together and learn new skills and […]
Blending his creativity and love for gardening, artist and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Dwayne Manuel is letting his yard become another place to let his imagination run loose. “When I look at the plants, I wish I could shrink myself down and walk around underneath there and climb them. This childlike wonder […]
Salt River Schools Communications and Public Affairs Director Taté Walker (Lakota citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota) has released a new poetry collection called “The Trickster Riots” with illustrations by their 14-year-old child, painter and graphic artist Ohíya Walker (Lakota citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe/Red Lake Ojibwe/Mvskoke Creek). For […]
In June 2021, O’odham Action News explored how the current megadrought might affect the future of water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. At that time, the Lower Colorado River Basin was anticipating the first-ever Tier 1 shortage declaration in 2022, which substantially cut Arizona’s share of the river’s water. On August 16, in […]
On August 16, a bill titled the Great Bend of the Gila Conservation Act was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) with support from many tribes, including the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The bill will establish the 47,000-acre Palo Verde National Conservation Area, the […]
Apache Stronghold, a San Carlos Apache nonprofit organization dedicated to defending holy sites and freedom of religion at Oak Flat, said in a statement that the Holy Ground crosses at the site were vandalized sometime after 9 p.m. on March 22. Wendsler Nosie Sr., a member of Apache Stronghold and former chairman and council member […]
For the past couple of months, 13 teens from the Lehi and Red Mountain branches of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale have been working with the nonprofit organization HealthCorps on a project in a program called Teens Make Health Happen. The Teens Make Health Happen club provides educational leadership programming and service […]
The spring planting season has already come to pass, but Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community community gardener Jacob Butler has a few tips to help you maintain your garden as the weather is heating up. • Make sure that you are thinning your plants. A lot of times we plant multiple seeds in the garden […]
