Scottsdale Community College’s American Indian Program provides resources, assistance and services to Indigenous students attending SCC. Created in the 1970s by SCC students at the time, the program offers Native students help with enrollment, scholarship resources, a computer lab for printing/scanning/copying, as well as professional and personal opportunities. Currently, Belinda...
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Maricela Hinojosa (Onk Akimel O’odham/Yaqui) was taught beadwork by her late uncle Paul Andrews. Hinojosa hadn’t beaded in a while when a close friend rekindled the spark in her at a “beading party,” and she picked up the needle again. Now, for the past...
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...
In a prime location on the first floor of the River People Health Center is the office of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community WIC program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children), which provides participant-centered WIC services to the Community. The entrance is at the north corner...
As the 2024 monsoon season approaches with the hot Arizona summer already in full swing, the Salt River Community Emergency Response Team (SR-CERT) hosted a public meeting at Lehi Fire and Police Substation 292 on June 6 to provide updates to members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The SR-CERT is composed of SRPMIC […]
As part of the ongoing educational efforts of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Health and Human Services Department, a webinar discussing mental health in the workplace was held on May 14. Hosted by SRPMIC HHS Community Health Educator Melanie Nosie, the webinar discussed important topics regarding mental health and protecting our peace. “We can […]
Representatives from a variety of government offices at the Osage Nation made a two-day peer-to-peer visit to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on April 4 and 5 to learn more about the ins and outs of how the SRPMIC functions. The group included Osage Nation staff in the areas of social services, behavioral health, […]