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...
The best and brightest baseball and softball athletes from Indian Country made their way to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community for a multi-day intertribal tournament organized by the Arizona Diamondbacks the week of June 2. Known as the only Native American baseball tournament sponsored by a Major League Baseball...
The Cultural Resources Department (CRD) and Dallas Construction, a business owned by Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member David Dallas, celebrated a construction milestone with a “topping out” ceremony on June 9 at the former Day School site now known as the Kavaḍ/Kushov Cultural Center. Kavaḍ (O’odham) and Kushov (Piipaash)...
In March, President Donald Trump announced several budget cuts via executive orders that targeted funding for programs incorrectly labeled as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Stating these changes are “objective facts” that casts the United States “in a negative light,” Trump slashed at least $1.6 million dollars in federal funds...
One of the largest all-Native American basketball tournaments on Turtle Island serving high school-aged youth returns to the Valley for another sizzling summer of high energy rez ball style basketball. Get ready for the 22nd Annual NABI (Native American Basketball Invitational), which will hold its pool and bracket games at...
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...
In this whirlwind of a political climate under the Trump administration, if you blink, you might miss something big. That is the case with news pertaining to Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel in Apache); the federally owned land in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest that contains a large copper deposit 7,000 feet...