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...
The fifth- and sixth-graders at the Red Mountain Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale, located at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Way of Life Facility (WOLF), are working on a new mural. Youth Development Specialist Natasha “Rezmo” Martinez took charge of the project, which was...
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...
On May 29, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Air Quality Program (AQP) hosted a public meeting to reveal the department’s air monitoring network report for the year 2023. Hosted in the Two Waters B building in the Stars Room, the meeting was nearly at maximum capacity with SRPMIC members...
Now that the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), owned and operated by Republic Services on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land, is again fully operational after a fire in 2019, the SRPMIC Public Works Department is promoting Republic Services’ recycling campaign, “Recycling Simplified,” and continuing to pick up recycling from Community...