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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On April 28, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s O’odham Piipaash Language Program (OPLP) and the Arizona State University Humanities Lab collaborated on a presentation called Language Emergency, which was held at the Hayden Library ASU Tempe Campus and streamed live on Zoom. Language Emergency is a collaboration between ASU and the SRPMIC to document […]
On April 28, Salt River Schools hosted an informational meeting about the Safe Routes to School initiative, a plan to study how students travel to school and how to make the journey safer and easier for those who walk or ride a bike. Family input was the goal of the event, which was held at […]