Morningstar Miles and her family wanted to do something in honor of her brother, the late George L. Lerma. Miles and her three children, Asa Padilla, Isaiah Lerma and Zackariah Miles, wanted to continue to honor George’s legacy of helping veterans from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and surrounding tribes.  Lerma’s family did just […]

Salt River Schools has received a Literacy for All grant from Native Youth Community Projects (NYCP), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The four-year grant began in 2018 and has since resulted in more than 3,300 books produced for Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community children and their families.  “We work with Unite […]

Santa and his elves came out to the Salt River Schools Food Services meal distribution drive-thru at the Early Childhood Education Center on Friday, December 18, to end the first semester of the 2020-21 school year. Many of the Salt River Education Department divisions were invited out by SRS Food Services to help give the […]

In a small community such as the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, where we are all pretty much related, our cousins are like our siblings and our neighbors are family. It’s hard when we lose anyone, but it’s especially hard when we lose someone from our Community. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the […]

During December, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Council representatives discussed the use of medical and recreational marijuana.  During the District “A” meeting with Council Representative Diane Enos on Monday, December 14, a number of SRPMIC members listened in via Skype and phone to hear a presentation given by Assistant General Counsel Jeff Harmon on the […]

For Thanksgiving, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Social Services Kinship Program collaborated with Bashas’ grocery stores to provide a choice of a boxed meal or a Bashas’ store voucher for 50 families. The meal came with a turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and a pie. Meals went to kinship […]

In a new ProPublica and Rhodium Group study, six of Arizona’s counties are among the top 100 most at risk of being uninhabitable in the nation in the next 20 to 40 years due to climate change. Pinal County is listed as the second most at-risk, while Maricopa County is ranked number 92. If you […]

On December 10, a new documentary called Parched premiered on YouTube about the creation of the art exhibition Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest, which explores the role of climate change and increasing demands for water in shaping culture, land and animal habitat. The documentary was produced by the Center for Ecosystem Science […]