Jr. Miss Salt River 2024-2025 Diondria Pilger is crowned by outgoing Jr. Miss Salt River 2023-2024 Jizelle Juan at the 32nd Annual Jr. Miss Salt River Pageant at Talking Stick Resort Ballroom on June 21.
Unfortunately, the “summertime blues” is more than the title of a Ritchie Valens song—it’s a form of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which affects many people every year. Seasonal affective disorder is a type of mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health most of the time regularly experience...
On June 17, after 32 years of working for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Presiding Judge Darayne Achin has officially retired, capping off a highly decorated career. “I didn’t work until I got married; I was a teacher’s aide at the Mesa Public Schools for a couple of years....
The second half of CoLang 2024 took place on tribal land at the Scottsdale Community College’s Indigenous Cultural Center, with two weeks of practica focusing on the O’odham, Piipaash and Māori languages. On the evening of June 18, participants were invited to the Round House Café at the Salt River...
There were baseball fanatics aplenty in downtown Phoenix as tribes from across Indian Country traveled to Chase Field for the annual Native American Recognition Day (NARD) on June 15, hosted by the Arizona Diamondbacks and sponsored by Talking Stick Resort. Though the game between the Diamondbacks and the Chicago White...
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...