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Join Us For Rainbow Gathering 2025

Join us for the 2025 Southwest American Indian Two Spirit LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Gathering! Featuring a day of inspiration, Indigiqueer speakers & resource sharing for Two Spirit relatives, advocates, health specialists, tribal citizens & allies!

We will gather for this free, one day event to celebrate Pride Month and our Two Spirit community! Registration is FREE and open to the community. Presentations will feature Indigenous scholars and community members including keynote speaker Dr. Charlie Amáyá Scott (Diné), Byron Upshaw, Trudie Jackson & Curtis Davia, with the event hosted by Emcee Navi Ho.

The Gathering will also include a Recognition Ceremony for our Dream Catcher & Basket Award Winners: Tara Begay, FNP-C, MSN, AAHIVS ((Diné) of TL Family Nurse Practice LLC and Rita DeMornay (Akimel O’odham), 2025 Miss Phoenix Pride.
 
We will also have a Two Spirit Talent Show and performances, on-site STI testing, resources tables & fun activities!
To register for the event, click here
 
Date/Time: Thursday, June 12, 2025 from 9 AM – 3 PM
Location: South Mountain Community College Student Union
Address: 7050 S. 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ
For event registration and sponsorship information, click here
For questions, call 602-264-6768 or email Queta Wanatee-Diego at ewanatee-diego@phxindcenter.org.

2025 American Indian Suicide Prevention Convening

Hosted by the Urban Indian Coalition of Arizona and the Phoenix Indian Center, the Suicide Prevention Convening is a safe space for local organizers to help establish suicide-safer communities for Urban American Indian families. 

Please join us on Friday, March 07, 2025 as we plan to have a community discussion about suicide prevention through an American Indian culturally respective lens to benefit our communities as well as highlight prevention efforts in Maricopa County & Arizona. The SPC hopes to incorporate traditional and contemporary Indigenous knowledge to bring together behavioral health staff, service providers, school support staff, youth service organizations, and community members to discuss and strategize how to reduce deaths by suicide among urban American Indian youth and adults.

To Register: Click here

Date: Friday, March 07, 2025

Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Location: DoubleTree Hilton Phoenix Tempe

Address: 2100 S. Priest Drive, Tempe, AZ 85282

Questions: Call 602-264-6768

Navajo Song & Dance

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: Saturday, February 08, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Montecito Community School
Address: 715 E. Montecito Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85014

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