Join us! The Phoenix Indian Center will be hosting our Winter 2025 Round Dance on Saturday, January 18, 2025. We will have food trucks, vendors and resource tables with community groups. More details to come! For questions, call 602-264-6768.
Admission: Free & Open to the community
Date: Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Phoenix College Gymnasium, 1202 W. Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ
The Annual American Indian Suicide Prevention Convening is seeking workshop proposals for convening sessions on March 7, 2025. In-person workshop content should be culturally relevant, educational, engaging, and reflect themes borrowed from the Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) curriculum, specifically Mastery and Interdependence. To find more information on these themes, the convening, and to submit a proposal, click here
Submission Deadline: Friday, January 10, 2025
BREAKOUT SESSION 1 THEME: MASTERY
SESSION SHOULD ADDRESS TOPICS IN:
• Culturally based resiliency factors and the importance of traditional cultural practices in healing.
• The trauma transmission process and its relationship to suicide and/or co-occurring disorders.
• Loss of (cultural) identity as a risk factor to suicide.
• A model to promote healing and recovery from historical trauma and a vision for a healthy future of self, family, and community.
• Survivor stories and their testimonies of resilience.
• Population-specific mental health and their unique experiences of trauma (i.e., youth, adult, elder, 2SLBGTQ+, maternal, men’s).
• Individual and community perceptions that hinder needed problem solving (i.e., language and cultural differences, western vs. Indigenous worldviews, etc.).
BREAKOUT SESSION 2 THEME: INTERDEPENDENCE
SESSION SHOULD ADDRESS TOPICS IN:
• The importance of interdependence between community members, stakeholders, land/nature, etc.
• Spiritual wellness (e.g., traditional practices and ceremonies, holistic medicine, etc.)
• Tribal and non-tribal collaborations in suicide prevention
• Alternative methods to healing (e.g., art therapy, animal-assisted therapy, or other holistic practices, non-traditional therapies, etc.)
• Social networks
• Action and community leadership
Thank you for your support. For Prevention Programming information, click here. For questions, call 602-264-6768 or email Belen Santistevan at BSantistevan@PhxIndCenter.org
The Phoenix Indian Center’s Language and Culture Program is excited to announce our first Navajo Song and Dance on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at the Montecito Community School. Grab your sweetheart and come dance with us and our invited singers, Łeeyi’ Tó Singers, Little Boy Blue Singers, and Tó Nílí Singers. Our Masters of Ceremony will be Jonas Smith and Ray Kahn of Ft. Defiance, AZ. Prizes for 1st and 2nd place for Best Dancers and Best Dressed will be awarded in the Tiny Tot to Elderly categories. We welcome the community and all royalty to join us for this free one-day event. Food trucks will be onsite. Make sure to bring your own chairs! Registration opens at 9:30 AM and Grand Entry will begin at 10:45 AM. We are looking forward to seeing you all there!
For more information, contact Kami Ortiz at kortiz@phxindcenter.org or by calling 602-264-6768.
Date: Feburary 08, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Montecito Community School
Address: 715 E. Montecito Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85014