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The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community celebrated O’odham and Piipaash heritage with a full day of fun activities on Saturday, November 16. “We Are O’odham, We Are Piipaash, We Are Still Here” was the theme of the 2024 O’odham Piipaash Day. Classes in making ce:mait (tortillas) were open to Community members from...
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s annual Safety Day is a celebration of the many ways in which the Salt River fire and police departments keep us all safe. This year’s celebration was held outdoors at the Accelerated Learning Academy football field on November 6 and featured department and enterprise...
I share this story as often as I can. I remember the eagles. I remember how close I was able to get. I sometimes wonder where they are now, where they have been and what they have seen. I especially remember the elders on that day that safely held them....
President Joe Biden’s first trip to Indian Country was to the Gila River Indian Community in October to formally apologize for the atrocities caused by the U.S. Indian boarding school system. Biden, along with other federal officials, including leaders from the Interior Department, traveled to the Gila Crossing Community School...
Twenty-five years ago, on November 6, 1999, more than 35,000 people attended the Tempe Town Lake Festival, an event marking the dedication of the new Tempe Town Lake, near the southwest edge of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The new recreational attraction sits at the heart of a dry...
One day in 1984, Roy Track (bot), a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member, wanted a way to showcase the best singers, dancers and performers in Indian Country. With the rest of the Track family assisting him, he put together plans to host a pow-wow as a way to get...
Students and families donned their best costumes and showed up ready for cheer and fear at the Halloween Spooktacular, held on October 24 inside the Salt River Accelerated Learning Academy gymnasium. Visitors were greeted with a gruesome graveyard as they approached, and inside they found photo booths and a sign-in...
According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Additionally, this year nearly 400,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer. To help combat the disease and improve upon the statistics, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community held a...
For victims’ advocates Rosa Cruz and Shanna Stewart, domestic violence isn’t a private issue, but a community issue. One in four women and one in 10 men experience domestic violence at some point in their lives. What’s more unsettling, these statistics reflect only the cases that are reported. Many times,...
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