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Showing up matters. “Ninety percent of succeeding in your life is just showing up and staying working at it. Just show up, and the rest comes pretty easy,” said Scott Thigpen, director of Engineering & Construction Services and chairman of the Apprenticeship Program Committee in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian...
U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, a Republican from Michigan and chairman of the House of Education and Workforce Committee, visited the Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on May 27. When SRPMIC President Martin Harvier testified in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on April 4 at a...
Editor’s Note: This story contains sensitive subject matter that readers may find upsetting. During the morning of May 21 on the ninth-floor of the Executive Tower inside of the Arizona Capitol Building, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs approached the lectern as she clutched House Bill 2281, also known as the ‘Turquoise...
Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon championed the idea of “Indian self-determination,” advocating for the federal government to end its “termination” policy of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream society and instead allow for tribes to govern themselves and make decisions for their own tribal members. In July 1970, Nixon told...
U.S. Senator Cory Booker arrived at Two Waters A, stepped out of the elevator and saw a welcome sign with his name on it. Booker proudly posed for a photo in front of the sign. Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community President Martin Harvier and Vice-President Ricardo Leonard welcomed Sen. Booker,...
Several generations of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community families met inside of SRPMIC’s Council Chambers on April 16 to celebrate and honor Community seniors celebrating over 90-plus years of life. Prior to the recognition, President Martin Harvier provided insight as to how the celebration came to be. “A few weeks...
For people unfamiliar with the machines, motorcycles can bring to mind an image of aggression: toughness, leather and loud engines. More often than not, that exterior is not a wall, but a gate, which was exemplified during Arizona’s Bike Week events focusing on missing and murdered Indigenous people. Native riders...
The flags representing Arizona’s 22 federally recognized tribes were removed from the Carl T Hayden Veterans’ Administration Medical Center in Phoenix on March 18, but now they have a new home at the Arizona Capitol rotunda in downtown Phoenix. According to a news release by the Department of Veteran Affairs,...
During a recent April 1 webinar in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Memory Dawn Long Chase, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and domestic violence response director for National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, explained it best. “If you are dealing with any human being in a...
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