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SRPMIC Member Dances in Super Bowl Halftime Show

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Saleen Chantasingh has been a dancer for about 11 years. Occasionally, she teaches public dance classes in Tempe, but now her résumé just became a little longer. An opportunity came her way when a friend recently sent her an email with information about an audition to participate in the […]

Former OAN Reporter Authors Play to Be Shown at San Francisco Playhouse

Former O’odham Action News reporter and Gila River Indian Community member Claude Jackson Jr. wrote a play called “Cashed Out” that will be performed at the San Francisco Playhouse this winter. The play will make its world premiere there and run from January 26 through February 25. Jackson is currently an attorney and the director […]

How the Pandemic Is Affecting Students and Families

As school carries on through the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents, students and schools continue to deal with a variety of stressful situations that have taken a deep emotional toll on many families. Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community families have especially struggled as young children and teens juggle learning in different environments and […]

How to Respond to an Opioid Overdose Using Narcan

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period. The CDC says synthetic opioids, primarily illicitly manufactured fentanyl, appear to be the […]

How to Cope with Grief and Loss

Some people are finding it easy to move on and go back to living their lives like they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. But for others, it’s a little tougher. Many people lost loved ones to COVID-19, or lost their jobs; for others, it just might have been difficult emotionally to isolate themselves from family […]

How Drought Affects the Future of Water at SRPMIC

For the past two decades, the Southwest has been in the midst of a megadrought. The Colorado River, which supplies water to the state of Arizona and other southwestern states through the Lake Mead and Lake Powell reservoirs, has seen its flows drastically reduced. However, stakeholders from across the Southwest came together in recent years […]

How to Safely Dispose of Old Medications

Do you have unused or expired prescription medications? At two locations in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community you can dispose of those old medications safely. The Salt River Police Department has operated a Prescription Pill Dropoff Box at the Main Station for the last seven years where SRPMIC members may drop off their unused […]

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