The Salt River Fire Department held its final live burn, the Legacy Burn for its nine fire recruits, on Friday, May 20, at the Tempe/APS Joint Fire Training Center.  The Legacy Burn is meant to put firefighter recruits in a real-life scenario. It offers the opportunity for academy recruits to enter a burning building, rescue […]

The Salt River Police Department began National Police Week by remembering fallen police officers, including two of their very own, with the National Police Officer Memorial on Friday, May 13, at the SRPD Administration Building.  The event’s MC, SRPD Off. Joseph Orozco, welcomed all who attended the memorial and welcomed the guest speakers. Orozco introduced […]

On May 3, a new “Building the Future of Housing” initiative officially broke ground in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community at the Lonely Cactus Expansion Rentals site. The Lonely Cactus Expansion Rentals will be located across the street from the Way of Life Facility (WOLF) and will feature six new units in a “triplex” […]

In March, a group of Indigenous aerosol artists from across Arizona was invited by Morehouse College to spend a week on its campus in Atlanta, Georgia, to create a mural and open a dialogue between the Native and African American cultures.  Neoglyphix is an all-Indigenous aerosol artists’ collective founded in 2014 by Martina Dawley, Ph.D., […]

President Joe Biden proclaimed Thursday, May 5, as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. According to a press release from the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, he also signed into law the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022, which expands special criminal jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover non-Native perpetrators of […]

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community WIC Program held a special drive-thru event to let their clients and potential new clients know that they have permanently moved to the River People Health Center. The event took place on Friday, April 29. WIC Program staff provided those who stopped by with cookbooks, cooking utensils, T-shirts and […]

Miss Salt River Sistine Lewis and Jr. Miss Salt River Robin Ramirez are taking a look back at their year representing the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The ladies recall the day they were crowned, talk about their experiences with the Miss Salt River and Jr. Miss Salt River courts, explain what they plan to […]

Since the spring of 2020, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community has lost more than 300 Community members, some from COVID-19 and some from other causes. On Saturday, May 7, SRPMIC held a Healing and Memorial Tribute event at the Salt River Ballfield to remember those whose lives were lost during this time. It was […]