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 […]

The Salt River Police Department has three new K9 officers that are trained in drug detection and criminal apprehension. Once marijuana became legal for non-native people, it drastically limited the SRPD’s K9 use with non-native people, and so the previous K9 officers cannot be used anymore. The previous K9 officers were sold to other law […]

By Terry Nelson, SRPMIC Emergency Management Coordinator With temperatures rising in the valley and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, your Emergency Management team would like to share some information on heat safety. Keep in mind that everyone can be vulnerable to heat, but some more than others. Those who are most vulnerable include young children […]

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 […]