The bird songs and dances filled the hearts of many with joy out in Lehi, also known by the people as “God’s Country,” for the 2026 springtime Piipaash Matasheevm. Held on April 3 and 4 this year, the two-day springtime celebration is widely considered to be one of the biggest...
In each quarter of the academic year, over the span of a week, the Westwood High School Native American Education Program partners with Salt River Schools and Community Relations to meet with every Salt River student who is enrolled at Westwood. Chris Dinehdeal and Lorena Clashin are the counselors who...
3 Takeaways: – Former Major League Baseball starting pitcher D.J. Carrasco is the founder and CEO of Native Nations, an organization that helps promote, train and educate Indigenous youth in baseball and softball. – In late March, Native Nations hosted a Community showcase clinic for baseball and softball athletes ages 12...
The U.S. government has officially handed the keys to Oak Flat (Chí’chil Biłdagoteel in Apache) over to mining company Resolution Copper in a land swap deal that was approved in 2014 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. This comes after numerous courtroom battles since 2021 between...
3 Takeaways: It’s not every day that the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community gets the chance to host a world-famous celebrity chef who also just happens to be Indigenous. On March 25, chef Stephanie Pyetwetmokwe (known simply as Pyet) DeSpain hosted a cookbook giveaway at the SRPMIC Tribal Library to...
3 Takeaways: Though she serves on a different kind of plate, chef Pyet DeSpain truly is in a league of her own. On March 25, DeSpain hosted a cooking demonstration inside the Showroom at Casino Arizona for special guests that included Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members and elders and...
The Arizona Baseball Museum in the Lehi neighborhood of Mesa is now open to visitors. Doors to the museum opened officially to the public on Feb. 21. Located in the old Lehi Auditorium off the corner of North Horne and East Lehi roads next door to the Mesa Historical Museum,...