Several groups of seniors and youth gathered for a multi-department collaboration event at the Scottsdale Community College (SCC) Indigenous Cultural Center (ICC) and Garden on March 9 called Nurturing Generations Through the Garden. Staff from the college’s American Indian Program Center for Native and Urban Wildlife and garden volunteers worked side by side at the […]

Members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Young River People’s Council teamed up with participants of the Youth Services Teen Wolf mentorship program to work on a service project during spring break on March 21 at the Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) location in Mesa. Feed My Starving Children is a Christian nonprofit organization […]

The future of fine art photography in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is in great hands. On the weekend of March 2 and 3 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, three students currently enrolled at the Accelerated Learning Academy received top honors for their photography work. Cynthia Morataya, Jasmin Richards and Vanessa Francisco submitted […]

The Colorado Rockies began the 2024 spring training season on February 23 in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. As they have done in previous years, the Rockies hosted a youth baseball skills camp in collaboration with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The camp took place on […]

This year, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Birds Singing and Dancing by the River traditional group achieved a feat it had yet to accomplish. During the 84th annual O’odham Wapkial Ha-Tas Parade in Sells, the dance group took home second-place honors.  “This was the first time the dance group has placed second,” said KiAna […]

“Peyton has always seen her aunties, family and friends play toka, whether it was at practice, a demonstration or in tournament. So, it was no surprise to me that she would soon start playing on her own,” said KiAna Reina, auntie of Peyton Z. Reina.  Peyton made her official toka debut on this year’s Salt […]

Where does Valentine’s Day come from? While historians aren’t entirely clear about which of several origin stories is the real one, the one most often described has to do with Valentine, a clergyman who lived in about the third century in Rome, Italy, and ministered to persecuted Christians. The emperor at the time, Claudius II […]

For the past three years, the San Tan Roadrunners always seemed to come up short when it came time to win a championship. They always played well during the regular season, but they’d ultimately lose their momentum during the playoffs and come up just short of winning it all.  A member of the Roadrunners boys’ […]