On March 18 at the Scottsdale Civic Center Memorial Lawn, a new permanent memorial wall called the Scottsdale Memorial for the Fallen was unveiled to remember Scottsdale-area residents, including Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation veterans, who gave their lives in military service to the nation. The memorial is a project […]
On March 9, team Mexico took on the Colorado Rockies ahead of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. The exhibition matchup against the Rockies marked the first time a WBC-affiliated game was played on tribal land. The game was even up until the fifth inning, when the Mexico team […]
On March 7, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed an executive order to establish an Arizona Task Force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). “It is time to turn the recommendations of the bipartisan study committee on MMIP into action,” Hobbs said. “By establishing this task force on MMIP, we are taking the first of […]
Students on spring break had the opportunity to explore their artistic skills on a mural project sponsored by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Youth Services Division (YSD). Over the course of two days, students in the Teen Wolf group of the after-school program worked together to design and paint a mural on an exterior […]
Scottsdale Community College has been presenting a series of workshops on Indigenous perspectives in academics. The SCC Indigenous Cultural Center (ICC) is hosting a three-session workshop called Implementing Indigeneity, with the first two sessions already taking place on February 24 and March 10, and the third scheduled for April 7. The workshop highlights the cultural, […]
The nonprofit investigative journalism outlet ProPublica recently released The Repatriation Project, a series dedicated to keeping track of the delayed return of Native American remains from America’s institutions back to tribal nations. According to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), repatriation means the return of possession or control of Native American cultural […]
On February 23, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members came out to Community Building to learn about calendar sticks. The SRPMIC Cultural Resources Department invited scholars Harry J. Winters Jr. and J. Andrew Darling to give a presentation on traditional Akimel O’odham and Tohono O’odham calendar sticks and how these artifacts record the history of […]