As part of the “Education Tuesday” series during March and April, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Health and Human Services Prevention and Intervention Department hosted a “Sexual Violence in Indian Country” webinar on Tuesday, April 16. Memory Dawn Long Chase served as the guest speaker during the presentation, with SRPMIC HHS Health Educator Vurlene […]

The annual Tribal Self-Governance Conference is a gathering of tribal leaders, tribal officials, federal partners and those who work closely with tribal communities to network, share resources and work toward establishing positive and healthy well-being for all individuals in Indian Country. The week-long conference took place April 15-18 at the Wild Horse Pass Resort in […]

By Nalani Lopez Salt River Schools held the 2024 Education Fair on April 4 at the Accelerated Learning Academy. The goal of the event is to share education-related knowledge and resources for Community families and their students. In O’odham, sgevkam ‘I gegikuan kam o ‘I ‘e ‘u:gkaj means “standing tall and going higher.” Va Sshly’aysh […]

“I came to work for the Community in November of 1982,” said Janet Johnson, who recently retired from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community as director of the Community Relations Office (CRO). “We created [CRO] in July of 1982 and there were two staff hired, Ivan Makil and myself.” In those times, the entire CRO […]

The corner of 92nd Street and McKellips Road is going to get a massive upgrade in the coming years from the Salt River Fire Department. A new fire station, Station 295, is scheduled to open there in early 2027. The station will measure more than 40,000 square feet and house sleeping and living areas for […]

The Salt River Police Department has promoted Walter Holloway, an 18-year veteran of the department and a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member, to the post of police chief following the recent retirement of Chief Karl Auerbach. Holloway was most recently a commander for the SRPD after serving in a variety of roles for the […]

By Nalani Lopez Residents and visitors in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community come across a variety of animals, both domestic and wild.  The Animal Control Unit, one of the Salt River Police Department’s specialty units, protects and serves the four-legged creatures that call the Community home.  “We enforce the [SRPMIC Code of Ordinances] regarding […]

“I rented a house in Phoenix about seven years ago,” began Memory Long Chase, domestic violence response director for the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition (SWIWC) during her webinar presentation on stalking on January 10. “My neighbor was very interested in getting to know me, and it was really weird to me. He was constantly looking […]