On Friday, October 28, families gathered at the Accelerated Learning Academy football field (formerly the Salt River High School football field) to learn about the public safety departments in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community at Safety Day, an event hosted by the Salt River Fire Department and the Salt River Police Department.  The event […]

Diabetes Prevention Services provided three online workshops to Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members and employees in October to provide education on type 2 diabetes. The first two workshops were “Basic Smart Eating for People with Diabetes” and “Stress Less 101.” The last workshop was “Sleep Is Essential,” which focused on the importance of sleep.  […]

On October 6, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community hosted a job fair for Community members to seek employment at the River People Health Center.  According to Crystal Banuelos, SRPMIC assistant human resources director, 107 attendees came out to the job fair. Of those individuals, 55 were Community members, 40 were enrolled with another tribe […]

On the weekend prior to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, local organizers Matriarch Ways held their 8th annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Arizona (IPDAZ) gathering with events throughout the Valley. This year the theme was “Against All Odds, We Still Exist,” and IPDAZ event organizer Laura Medina said that the goal was to go back to the original […]

The annual event that draws the participation of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members and employees, is a chance to test individual and group teamwork. SRPMIC will once again, have representation in the form three competing teams and a lone Community member, who will take-on the challenge of swimming, biking and running against competitors from […]

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Fall Overhaul was back to being an in-person event for the first time in three years. With the theme of “All of Us” (’A:cim Ve:sij in O’odham and Mat chuuwaama in Piipaash), the 2022 Fall Overhaul was held on October 21, with indoor and outdoor service projects established by […]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that it has appointed the agency’s first National Tribal Affairs Advocate, Kelbie Kennedy, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The appointment follows the August release of the agency’s “2022-2026 FEMA National Tribal Strategy,” which addresses its responsibilities to federally recognized tribal nations when responding to and […]

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community President Martin Harvier, staff from the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs, members of the Young River People’s Council and staff from the River People Health Center met with U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Friday, October 14, at the River People Health Center to discuss a few issues that […]