On Wednesday, July 3, Salt River Senior Services hosted its monthly senior breakfast at the Lehi Community Building. July’s breakfast took seniors to “The Great Hall” in Hogwarts Castle, as the theme for this month is Harry Potter. The room was decorated with banners, balloons and wands as Senior Services...

This year’s Miss Salt River 2024-2025 pageant featured three Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members vying for the crown: Sialik King, Zoe Hernandez and Evevannah Garza. Held inside the Talking Stick Resort Ballroom on June 22, the glamorous event featured a who’s who of Indigenous royalty from across Indian Country,...

Jr. Miss Salt River 2024-2025 Diondria Pilger is crowned by outgoing Jr. Miss Salt River 2023-2024 Jizelle Juan at the 32nd Annual Jr. Miss Salt River Pageant at Talking Stick Resort Ballroom on June 21.

On June 17, after 32 years of working for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Presiding Judge Darayne Achin has officially retired, capping off a highly decorated career. “I didn’t work until I got married; I was a teacher’s aide at the Mesa Public Schools for a couple of years....

The second half of CoLang 2024 took place on tribal land at the Scottsdale Community College’s Indigenous Cultural Center, with two weeks of practica focusing on the O’odham, Piipaash and Māori languages. On the evening of June 18, participants were invited to the Round House Café at the Salt River...

There were baseball fanatics aplenty in downtown Phoenix as tribes from across Indian Country traveled to Chase Field for the annual Native American Recognition Day (NARD) on June 15, hosted by the Arizona Diamondbacks and sponsored by Talking Stick Resort. Though the game between the Diamondbacks and the Chicago White...

The fifth- and sixth-graders at the Red Mountain Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale, located at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Way of Life Facility (WOLF), are working on a new mural. Youth Development Specialist Natasha “Rezmo” Martinez took charge of the project, which was...

SRPMIC Day, Community Celebration Day, Community Day—whatever you choose to call it, June 14 is the anniversary of the day in 1879 when President Rutherford B. Hayes signed the currently accepted Executive Order establishing the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Though this was after the initial order was signed on...