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It was a night four years in the making for Westwood High School student-athlete and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Angie Montoya. As the varsity girls basketball season winds down to an end, Westwood hosted their yearly Senior Night celebration on January 30 for their last home game of the season, against Red Mountain. […]
By Nalani Lopez In recent decades, the traditional game of toka has found its way back to the O’odham women of the Sonoran Desert. In the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Community member Jessica Ruiz, shared the ins and outs of the recreational sport with interested women on January 31 at the Salt River Tribal Library. The […]
Westwood High School’s boys’ junior varsity basketball team has already experienced their fair share of highs and lows this season. When their season began in late November, the Warriors fell short to Williams Field High School, 59-31. The following day, they were victorious against Seton Catholic Prep to the tune of 59-43. Sophomores Kael Andrews […]
“This topic is heavy,” began Memory Dawn Long Chase, domestic violence response director for the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition (SWIWC). The organization is the domestic and sexual violence coalition serving Indian tribes in Arizona. Since 2006, SWIWC has worked on issues relating to the safety, justice and healing of tribal communities regarding missing and murdered […]
Community health educators Vurlene Notsinneh-Bowekaty and Melanie Nosie from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Health and Human Services Suicide Prevention and Intervention program spent the morning of January 8 at the Round House Café promoting Community Outreach Day. The hour-long event featured free goodies such as pens, lens wipes, notepads and stress balls. The […]
As students and faculty attended their classes at Scottsdale Community College (SCC) on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on November 1 and 2, little did they know that at the college’s Indigenous Cultural Center, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Continuity Programs (ONCP) was holding a training course for representatives from […]
On October 17, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community WIC program held a special Young Child Health Celebration event at the Accelerated Learning Academy gymnasium. The event was aimed at providing caregivers of children age 5 years and younger with the tools necessary to help raise healthy children. WIC (Women, Infants and Children) is part […]
By Juan Ysaguirre On September 14, the Accelerated Learning Academy (ALA) hosted its second annual “Fall into Cosplay” event in the ALA gymnasium. This year’s theme was “Careers in Cosplay,” and the event held as a way to continue to promote literacy within the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Cosplay is when fans of a […]
Students from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Recreation Department’s summer camp program took part in a talent show on June 22 in the Community Building main hall. The talent show highlighted some hidden skills and talents in an effort to get more youth involved in summer activities. Recreation Social Programs Division Social Programs Manager […]
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