Join us for the 2025 Arizona Two Spirit Powwow! We will host the free, one-day event at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix. We are inviting everyone to join us in celebration for our Two Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTQ+ community! All dancers and drum groups are welcome. This is an alcohol and drug free event.

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To join our vendor waitlist, email cjoe@phxindcenter.org

Event Information:

Date: Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025

Time: 10 AM – 6 PM

Location: South Mountain Community College

Address: 7050 S. 24th St, Phoenix, AZ 85042

Admission: Free and open to the community

Parking: Free and available on campus

Questions? Call 602-264-6768 or email info@phxindcenter.org

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

To volunteer at the event, click here

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 31, 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

Event Details & Participant Registration

• Register Today: Click here
• Date: Friday, March 07, 2025
• Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
• Location: Double Tree Hotel Phoenix-Tempe, 2100 S. Priest Drive, Tempe, 85282