“Welcome to our Council meeting in Lehi, it’s a real special occasion today,” began Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Council member Deanna Scabby on June 12 at the Lehi Community Center. The Council meeting featured a swearing-in ceremony for three new judges who will be serving the Community. All members...
The second half of CoLang 2024 took place on tribal land at the Scottsdale Community College’s Indigenous Cultural Center, with two weeks of practica focusing on the O’odham, Piipaash and Māori languages. On the evening of June 18, participants were invited to the Round House Café at the Salt River...
There were baseball fanatics aplenty in downtown Phoenix as tribes from across Indian Country traveled to Chase Field for the annual Native American Recognition Day (NARD) on June 15, hosted by the Arizona Diamondbacks and sponsored by Talking Stick Resort. Though the game between the Diamondbacks and the Chicago White...
The languages of many Indigenous peoples around the world are in danger of becoming extinct due to smaller and smaller numbers of people who are familiar with them. Unfortunately, that includes the O’odham and Piipaash languages. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is working to prevent that through its O’odham...
Every summer, youth all across the country leave the classroom behind for the baseball diamond. This includes the youth of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community who participated in the 24th annual D-Backs Inter-Tribal Youth Baseball Tournament, held June 11-14. Games took place at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, Salt...
SRPMIC Day, Community Celebration Day, Community Day—whatever you choose to call it, June 14 is the anniversary of the day in 1879 when President Rutherford B. Hayes signed the currently accepted Executive Order establishing the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Though this was after the initial order was signed on...
“Imagine a glass of water,” began Annamari Hogan, LPC, of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Health and Human Services Department during her May 21 webinar presentation titled “Understanding ACEs and the Impacts of Childhood Trauma.” The webinar educated attendees about the ACEs questionnaire (Adverse Childhood Experiences), a tool that...